Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

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

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

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You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke

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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

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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.

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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.

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To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.

Arthur Miller in Death of a Salesman (1949)
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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.

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