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.
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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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