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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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 love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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 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 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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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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