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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

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
ARTHUR MILLER

Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
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
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
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
ARTHUR MILLER

Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
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
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
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’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
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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Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
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
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
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
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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Age Art Better Focus Necessary Yourself

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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