Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
ARTHUR MILLERI 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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