Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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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A 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.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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 good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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 theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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