Arthur Miller Quotes

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Arthur Miller

Profession : Playwright

Birth : October 17, 1915

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Arthur Miller

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

Arthur Miller

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

Arthur Miller

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

Arthur Miller

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

Arthur Miller

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Arthur Miller

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Arthur Miller

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

Arthur Miller

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

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.

Arthur Miller

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

Arthur Miller

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Miller

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

Arthur Miller

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Arthur Miller

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Arthur Miller

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

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

Arthur Miller

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

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

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.

Arthur Miller