I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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