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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Arthur Miller

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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Country Innocent Place See
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Money Profit Seduction Value
If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
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Justice Live Simplicity Value
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
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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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Country Live Stay Yourself
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
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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Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
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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Attention Character Himself Live Paid
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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Action Beginning Choice Innocent
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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Catch Children Love Return Run
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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Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell Yourself
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

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