Arthur Miller Quotes
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For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.
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The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
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A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
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Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.
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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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most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory
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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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Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
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There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.
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Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
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Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
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I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
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Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.
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Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
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In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
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The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.
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In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
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You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
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