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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.

Arthur Miller

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
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
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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Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
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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Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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Camera Home Recognition Theatre Work
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
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
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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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Absence Face Humility Question
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
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

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