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If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Arthur Miller

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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Action Beginning Choice Innocent
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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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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
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
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
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
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
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
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself
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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Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
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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Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

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