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?
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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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