Quotes of Arthur Miller - somelinesforyou

“ The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves ”

- Arthur Miller

“ Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves ”

- Arthur Miller

“ It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves ”

- Arthur Miller

“ The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness until redeemed the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ 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

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

- Arthur Miller

“ I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience . 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

“ Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ 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

“ Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ 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

“ Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake… ”

- Arthur Miller

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

- Arthur Miller

“ All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ 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

“ 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

“ Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. ”

- Arthur Miller

“ 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
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