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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. … No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.

— Arthur Miller

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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!

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I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

After the Fall (1964)

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

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