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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Arthur Miller

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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Country Innocent Place See
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
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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Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
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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Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell Yourself
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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Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
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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Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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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Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
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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Justice Live Simplicity Value
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
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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Camera Home Recognition Theatre Work
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself
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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Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Money Profit Seduction Value
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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Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
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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Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Country Live Stay Yourself
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
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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Catch Children Love Return Run
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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Catch Children Love Return Run Spirit Stand

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

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