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 MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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 structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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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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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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.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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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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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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