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.
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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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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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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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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’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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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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