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?
ARTHUR MILLERI have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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 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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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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