The job is to ask questions—it always was—and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
—Arthur Miller
Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
—Arthur Miller
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
—Arthur Miller
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
—Arthur Miller
Topics: Life
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
—Arthur Miller
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
—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
Topics: Tragedy
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
Topics: Dreams
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