Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

"The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always."
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"The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always."
Arthur Miller
"It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves"
Arthur Miller The Crucible
"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
Arthur Miller
"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
Arthur Miller
"The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."
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
"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 Miller
"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
Arthur Miller
"You never do any good until you get into some trouble."
Arthur Miller
"The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks."
Arthur Miller
"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."
Arthur Miller
"A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."
Arthur Miller
"The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes."
Arthur Miller
"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost."
Arthur Miller
"Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears."
Arthur Miller
"An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted."
Arthur Miller
"A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from."
Arthur Miller
"Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world."
Arthur Miller
"Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it."
Arthur Miller
"Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men."
Arthur Miller
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