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I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

Arthur Miller

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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy
I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLER

Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
ARTHUR MILLER

Kill People Suicide
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 MILLER

Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell 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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLER

Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLER

Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Camera Home Recognition Theatre Work
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
ARTHUR MILLER

Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Himself Live Masterpieces World
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
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Myself Nation Talk
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Judgement Yourself
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
ARTHUR MILLER

Action Beginning Choice Innocent
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLER

Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking

I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

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