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One Quotes by Arthur Miller
- The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes…
- I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
- No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
- A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the…
- Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group…
- I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his…
- One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they…
- I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
- Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable…
- The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty…
- One can’t stand forever on the shore. At some point, filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life…
- My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or…
- You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
- Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier…
- Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in…
- Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
- Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And…
- You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
- You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. You specialize in…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle