In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies--they know better.
Arthur MillerTag: autobiography
The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh.
Arthur MillerTag: socialism toilet-humor
Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect of governments, and perhaps was the generating clout against encroachments on the spiritual protections for speech, assembly, and so on. It might turn out that without the right to possess we are not sure we really have the right to speak and to be.
Arthur MillerTag: political-theory property-rights
I am amazed all over again by how magnified this project's importance has become, far beyond its being a play or an artwork. It is now a test of some kind; but of what, precisely? The incommunicability of the Chinese? If I can't claim to know my actors, I know them as well or as little as I would an American cast. I can no longer call up the notion of Chinese mysteriousness.
Arthur MillerTag: theatre cross-cultural-understanding
...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
Arthur MillerIt is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
Arthur MillerTag: wisdom life truth literature plays lessons
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
Arthur MillerI am still feeling kinda temporary about myself
Arthur MillerThe enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.
Arthur MillerTag: self-awareness
There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits
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