I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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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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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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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