Author Profile
Arthur Miller
1915 – 2005 • American • Playwright
41
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 41 quotesI am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.— Arthur Miller
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?— Arthur Miller
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.— Arthur Miller
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.— Arthur Miller
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.— Arthur Miller
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.— Arthur Miller
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.— Arthur Miller
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.— Arthur Miller
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.— Arthur Miller
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.— Arthur Miller
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.— Arthur Miller
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.— Arthur Miller