If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

Quote by Arthur Miller

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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...

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon...

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon...

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have...

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

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.

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

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

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...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer...

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer...

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...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

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?...

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

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 suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all

If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all

I want to see you shoot the way you shout

I want to see you shoot the way you shout

Suicide is the remedy of pain

Suicide is the remedy of pain