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41 " You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. "
― Arthur Miller , Death of a Salesman
42 " I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. "
43 " I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy? "
44 " 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 , The Crucible
45 " I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. 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. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. "
46 " You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away. "
― Arthur Miller , A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
47 " We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! "
48 " I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again. "
49 " ...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. "
50 " Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. "
51 " Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor. "
52 " Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all. "
53 " Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future. "
54 " He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! "
55 " it's the proper morning to fly into Hell. "
56 " I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door. "
57 " See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals... "
58 " Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died. "
59 " Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked. "
60 " The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone... "