I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
ARTHUR MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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?
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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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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