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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

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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Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell Yourself
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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Absence Face Humility Question
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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Justice Live Simplicity Value
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Author Diversity Life Time
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLER

Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
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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Attention Character Himself Live Paid
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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Himself Live Masterpieces World
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
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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Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
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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Catch Children Love Return Run
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Money Profit Seduction Value
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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Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

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