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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. (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. View quote
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. View quote
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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. View quote
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The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. View quote
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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. View quote
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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. View quote
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. View quote
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. View quote
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Everything we are is at every moment alive in us. View quote
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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. (Arthur Miller)
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. View quote
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? View quote
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I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. View quote
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It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves. View quote
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact. View quote
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone. View quote
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. View quote
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There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. View quote
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