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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Arthur Miller

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
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Myself Nation Talk
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
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
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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Catch Children Love Return Run
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
ARTHUR MILLER

Existence Science Talk
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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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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Country Innocent Place See
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Money Profit Seduction Value
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
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Door Dream Sleep Wake Up Walk Yourself
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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Dare Myself Nation Talk Work

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