Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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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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?
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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 good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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