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.
ARTHUR MILLERCan anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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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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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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