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.
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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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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 theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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