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Arthur Miller Quotes

American - Playwright | October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Politics Without Alienation

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.

Good Shoes Value Nothing Lived Pair

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.

Walk Trying You Emotion Write Well

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

Love Child Stand You Will Spirit

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man Tools Him Shape Must His

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.

Experience Problem You Person Real

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Live You Country Way Stay Lives

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.

Looking Camera You House Quotation

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Value Thinking Profit Without Make

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Home Birds Story Play Structure How

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Day You Find One Day Something

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Life People Country Place Innocent

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