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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.

Arthur Miller

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
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy
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
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
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 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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Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
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
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
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
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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Himself Live Masterpieces World
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
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

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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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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