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?
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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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Can 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.
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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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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 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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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