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Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

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The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ↗

— Alice Miller

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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#failures #faults #good #good pair #having

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

— Arthur Miller

#cannot #catch #child #itself #love

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#american culture #certainly #culture #department #difficult

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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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. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#being #character #ever #finest #happening

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

— Arthur Miller

#credit #dare #endure #i #know

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? ↗

— Arthur Miller

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