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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.

Arthur Miller

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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Himself Live Masterpieces World
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Country Live Stay Yourself
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
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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Age Art Better Focus Necessary Yourself
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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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Country Innocent Place See
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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Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Author Diversity Life Time
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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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
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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Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself

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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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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