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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Arthur Miller

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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Catch Children Love Return Run Spirit Stand
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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Door Dream Sleep Wake Up Walk Yourself
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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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Absence Face Humility Question
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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Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
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
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
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
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Author Diversity Life Time

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