The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLERNever fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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