Quote: The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? [Arthur Miller]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: 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. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: Without alienation, there can be no politics. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: 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. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! [Arthur Miller]
Quote: All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Quote: Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: 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. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: 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. [Arthur Miller]
Quote: I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. [Arthur Miller]