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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.

Arthur Miller

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Author Diversity Life Time
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
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
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
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself
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
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
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
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
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
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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Absence Face Humility Question
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
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 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
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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Action Beginning Choice Innocent

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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