The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within. Arthur Miller More Quotes by Arthur Miller More Quotes From Arthur Miller I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. Arthur Miller jobs art thinking Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. Arthur Miller regret mistake life I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something. Arthur Miller confused struggle writing ...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself. Arthur Miller destroying liberty government No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient. Arthur Miller honesty ifs want And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere. Arthur Miller doubt life-is forever The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians. Arthur Miller politician war art Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it. Arthur Miller lifetime house pay An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. Arthur Miller eras exhausted dream A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. Arthur Miller causes challenges character The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. Arthur Miller editing home writing The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always. Arthur Miller writing attitude fun If you analyse anything, you destroy it. Arthur Miller ifs Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. Arthur Miller money motivational thinking When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion. Arthur Miller white men hands Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. Arthur Miller liberty mind people Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. Arthur Miller beautiful beauty heaven Everything we are is at every moment alive in us. Arthur Miller alive moments My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much. Arthur Miller issues writing years Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed. Arthur Miller command-not men order
