Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
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A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
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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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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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He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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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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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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I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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You cut your life down for spite!
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I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know...
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house - You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.
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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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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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Isn't that - isn't that remarkable? Biff - he likes me!