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 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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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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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.
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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.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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