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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.

Arthur Miller

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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run Spirit Stand
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Himself Live Masterpieces World
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
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Myself Nation Talk
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy
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 MILLER

Age Art Better Focus Necessary Yourself
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLER

Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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 MILLER

Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLER

Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLER

Home Play Story Structure
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Judgement Yourself
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
ARTHUR MILLER

Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLER

Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
ARTHUR MILLER

Herself Love Match Myself
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLER

Author Diversity Life Time
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER

Himself Shape Tools
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
ARTHUR MILLER

Absence Face Humility Question
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

Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLER

Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLER

Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Attention Character Himself Live Paid
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLER

Accident Fascination Life Theatre
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLER

End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
ARTHUR MILLER

Existence Science Talk
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree

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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