I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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 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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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