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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Arthur Miller

Love

Roses

Trying

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

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

Quotation

Theater

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

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

Dream

Sleep

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.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

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.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Miller

Money