He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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 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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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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