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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.  
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-yo...  
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that ...  
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.  
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of r...  
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the ...  
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece...  
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being,...  
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Departmen...  
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they w...  
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.  
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an ...  
I understand Willy Loman's longing for immortality Willy's writing his...  
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious ...  
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing ...  
If I see an ending, I can work backward.  
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house,...  
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.   Life
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tel...  
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin...  
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over th...  
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentrat...  
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorabl...  
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a comput...  
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the thea...  
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...  
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It...  
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would g...  
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane a...  
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradi...  
Without alienation, there can be no politics.  
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand ...  
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing ...