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 MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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