Thinking Quotes by Arthur Miller

9 Thinking quotes by Arthur Miller

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Miller’s take on the mental landscape is captured in nine powerful lines, blending his theatrical sensibility with a stark, honest look at how we process the world around us.

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

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There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with…

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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

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I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and…

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Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European…

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I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to…

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. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and…

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My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is…

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Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you…

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If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to…

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“If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world,…

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The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

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“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…

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

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“(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…

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The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause…

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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

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“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and…

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“Elizabeth, with great fear: I will fear nothing.”

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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…

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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and…

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“I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody”

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