Arthur Miller Quotes

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

Life, Hope, End

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller

Truth, Betrayal, Sticks

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

Love, Trying, Remember

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

If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Arthur Miller

Work, Ending, Backward

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

Strength, Knowledge, Cannot

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

Love, After, Child

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

Thinking, Value, Profit

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

Sleep, Through, Find

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.
Arthur Miller

Good, Nothing, Value

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

Judge, Sometimes, Goodness

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

Life, Point, Call

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

Love, After, Cannot

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

Live, Country, Lives

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller

Money, Him, Everybody

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

Made, Friends, Difficult

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

While, Looking, House

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

Fight, Fair, Stranger

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Arthur Miller

Job, Humility, Face

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

Find, Until, Specialize

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller

Good, Nation, Talking

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
Arthur Miller

Talking, Nitrogen

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

Life, Game, Find

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

Live, Through, Son

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

Character, Human, Him

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 17, 1915

Died: February 10, 2005

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