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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.

Arthur Miller

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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Absence Face Humility Question
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
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
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 MILLER

Attention Character Himself Live Paid
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 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
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLER

Money Profit Seduction Value
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Country Innocent Place See
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
ARTHUR MILLER

Kill People Suicide
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLER

Home Play Story Structure
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
ARTHUR MILLER

Country Live Stay Yourself
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLER

Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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
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 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

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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