A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Quote by Arthur Miller

Topics: Irony Quotes, Play Quotes

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

I understand [Willy Loman's] longing for immortality Willy's writing his name in a cake of...

I understand [Willy Loman's] longing for immortality Willy's writing his name in a cake of...

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum?...

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum?...

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

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

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

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

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

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

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of...

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one...

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one...

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before...

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before...