The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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