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.
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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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 playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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