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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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