I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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