Timebends Quotes

“What ideology, I wondered, was not based on a principled denial of the facts?”
― Arthur Miller

“My dreams of many years had simply become too damned real, and the reality was less than the dream and lacked all dedication.”
― Arthur Miller

“It seemed forever before someone remembered to applaud, and then there was no end to it.”
― Arthur Miller

“I had striven all my life to win this night, and it was here, and I was this celebrated man who had amazingly little to do with me, or I with him.”
― Arthur Miller

“Is this, I wondered, why writing exists—as a proof against oblivion? And not just for the writer himself but also for all the others who swim in the depths where the sun of the culture never penetrates?”
― Arthur Miller

“Power was fundamentally an idiot who at all cost had to be restrained by a net of rules so basic and so clear that even he could be instructed in them before, in one of his rages, he tore down the house.”
― Arthur Miller

“We had invented God to keep from dying of reality, yet love was the realest reality of all.”
― Arthur Miller

“There was nowhere I had to be tomorrow, yet something kept pushing me to hurry and make up lost time. But lost to what? Who finds time that is lost? Time is never lost, we give it away, dump it out, character is everything, and I had not wanted to withhold myself anymore, that was all.”
― Arthur Miller

“Science was reason’s triumph, we had been so pridefully taught, the defeat of the Beast. But what happened when the Beast learned science?”
― Arthur Miller