I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLERBetrayal is the only truth that sticks.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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