“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind… — 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
There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I’ve always made a point of not wasting my life, and everytime I come back here I know that all I’ve done… — 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
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Every man does have a star. the star of one's honesty. and you spend your life groping for it, but once its… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“(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 Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
