If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanisation of feelings, then the ultimate develop

Quote by Arthur Miller

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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...

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 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.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country...

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country...

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...

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that...

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that...

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

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 play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free...

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free...

One day, I'll start messing with your feelings and you'll get mad because I finally...

One day, I'll start messing with your feelings and you'll get mad because I finally...

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...

I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in...