Arthur Miller Quotes
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Arthur Miller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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.
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.
To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.
When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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.
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
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 ...
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.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess that's when it's tough.
I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.
All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now
There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.
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.
When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.
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.