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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.

Arthur Miller

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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Justice Live Simplicity Value
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
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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Attention Character Himself Live Paid
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself 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
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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Himself Live Masterpieces World
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
ARTHUR MILLER

Country Live Stay Yourself
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
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
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
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Finding Passion Specialization Work 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
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
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

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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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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