Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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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.
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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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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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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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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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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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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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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