I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLERWell, 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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