Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLERI 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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