A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Quote by Arthur Miller

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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

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.

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 think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

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

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

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

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...

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a...

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a...

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and...

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and...

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before...

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before...

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer...

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer...