Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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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 cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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