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.
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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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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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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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