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Famous Arthur Miller Quotes
“When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.”
“Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.”
“I am a good woman. I know it.”
“Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.”
“A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.”
“Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.”
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
“A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.”
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
“Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.”
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”
“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.”
“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”
“There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.”
“HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit”
“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”
“Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.”