“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize itself.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
