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.
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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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