Quotes by Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

American Dramatist

Lived from: 1915 - 2005

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 17 october 1915 Died: 10 february 2005

  • Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
  • A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

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  • A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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  • A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
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  • A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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  • 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 audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
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  • A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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  • A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
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  • All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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  • Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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  • Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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  • Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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  • Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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  • Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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  • He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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  • He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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  • I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
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  • I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
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  • I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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  • I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
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  • I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
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  • I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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What are the most famous quotes from Arthur Miller?

The two most famous quotes from Arthur Miller are:

  • "A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back."
  • "A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself."

When did Arthur Miller live?

Arthur Miller was born in 1915 and died in the year 2005.