The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
ARTHUR MILLERA child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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