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.
ARTHUR MILLERDon’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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