You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLERYou cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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