A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLERIf 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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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.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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