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.
ARTHUR MILLERIf I see an ending, I can work backward.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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