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.
ARTHUR MILLERBetrayal is the only truth that sticks.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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 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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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