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Things always happen in series.
Arthur Adamov
Always
Happen
Series
Things
That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
Arthur Laurents
Me
Better
Enough
Left
Fantasies
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller
Paradise
Action
Innocence
Absence
Begins
Any
Ends
Where
Choice
Choose
Need
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.
Arthur Miller
Character
Human Being
Must
Finest
He
Attention
Terrible
Him
Terrible Thing
Human
Being
Happening
Paid
Lived
Ever
Thing
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
Arthur Miller
Love
Too
Our
Neuroses
Match
Just
Her
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
You
Looking
On-Screen
Marks
Recognized
Out
Tend
House
Were
Camera
Blotted
Screen
Quotation
Theater
While
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller
Politics
Alienation
Without
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
You
Walk
Though
Dream
Find
Dreaming
Some
About
Through
House
Coming
Wake
Door
Cannot
Sleep
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
Arthur Miller
People
Suicide
Maggie
Two
Two People
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Arthur Miller
Money
Everybody
Nobody
Likes
Him
Lends
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller
Day
You
One Day
Find
Something
Until
Specialize
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
Job
Face
Humility
Absence
Always
Answers
Inexorably
Precise
Them
Ask
Certain
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Arthur Miller
You
Fight
Way
Out
Never
Fair
Boy
Jungle
Get
Stranger
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
Arthur Miller
Love
You
Will
Must
Running
Spirit
Catch
Soon
Return
Still
Itself
Child
After
Cannot
Stand
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
Arthur Miller
You
Country
Live
Playwright
Way
Stay
Occupied
Lives
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.
Arthur Miller
Myself
Great
Problem
Think
Statement
Possible
Rather
Most
Great Thing
Answer
Accurate
Theater
Formulation
Much
Now
Thing
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
Arthur Miller
Life
People
Innocent
Country
Insane
Unable
Asylum
See
Drift
Through
Most
Truly
Any
Place
Themselves
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller
Life
Game
Find
Minor
Diverse
Most
Pastime
Author
Literary
Certainly
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
Arthur Miller
You
Experience
Problem
Feeling
Realistic
Cost
Had
Simply
Real
Were
His
Yes
Person
Real Person
Intense
Any
Sustain
Theater
Episodes
Series
Watching
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Arthur Miller
Culture
Enemies
Made
Difficult
State
State Department
More
Friends
Very
Than
American
Department
Fewer
American Culture
Certainly
You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.
Athol Fugard
Positive
Me
You
Woman
Reality
Strong
Men
Sense
Think
Weak
Worthless
See
Voice
Shaped
Written
Well
Up
Affirmative
Reflects
Any
Quite
Grew
Certainly
Plays
For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
Athol Fugard
You
Man
Soul
Men
South Africa
Draw
Out
Phrase
Miracle
Bottom
Equal
Does
Rock
Yawn
Hear
West
South
Africa
Us
Created
Starting
I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
Athol Fugard
Life
Me
Witness
Single
Own
Think
Dramatic
See
Something
My Own
Potential
Outside
Between
Read
Does
Hear
Represent
Newspaper
Internal
Fascinates
Even
Event
Street
External
Plays
Coincidence
Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
Athol Fugard
Love
Me
Anger
Love Is
Energy
Believe
Out
Would
Only
Writer
Take
Never
Written
Nobody
Like
Although
Informed
Used
Away
Ever
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.
Athol Fugard
Challenge
Beginning
Stage
Faced
Toughest
Had
Knot
Also
Audiences
Came
South
South African
Blood
Trying
African
Stories
Place
Which
Convince
Right
Career
In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.
Athol Fugard
Life
Success
You
Problems
South Africa
Month
Never
New
Nonsense
South
Lot
York
New York
Africa
Happen
Flavor
Your
Presented
Presents
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