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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

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 suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
ARTHUR MILLER

Kill People Suicide
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Judgement Yourself
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLER

End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
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
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
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
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
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?
ARTHUR MILLER

Age Art Better Focus Necessary Yourself
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLER

Alien Politics
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
ARTHUR MILLER

Existence Science Talk
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLER

Author Diversity Life Time
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLER

Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
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
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER

Himself Shape Tools
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLER

Home Play Story Structure

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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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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