I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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 cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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 job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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