"Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation."
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"I am a good woman. I know it."
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"I still feel-kind of temporary about myself."
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"Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all."
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"They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult."
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"More Weight -Giles Corey-"
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"I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding."
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"You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you."
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"PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!"
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"Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next."
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"In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another."
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"Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him."
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"What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!"
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"Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect."
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"Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?"
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"There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism."
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"The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars."
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"Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy."
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"Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success."
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