A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
ARTHUR MILLERI’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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 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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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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