But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.


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ARTHUR MILLER
I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...
ARTHUR MILLER
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
ARTHUR MILLER
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is qu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intel...
ARTHUR MILLER
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the univers...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and ...
ARTHUR O'SHAUNESSEY
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only...
ARTHUR PINE
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on...
ARTHUR MILLER
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
No one can transcend their own individuality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER