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81 " I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! "
― Arthur Miller , Death of a Salesman
82 " But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely. "
83 " cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale "
― Arthur Miller , The Crucible
84 " 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
85 " It seemed forever before someone remembered to applaud, and then there was no end to it. "
86 " 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. "
87 " It's a fantasy, Victor. Your father was penniless and your brother a son of a bitch, and you play no part at all. I said to ask him because you could see in front of your face that he had some money. You knew it then and you certainly know it now. "
88 " Was there any love here? When he needed her, she vomited. And when you needed him, he laughed. What was unbearable is not that it fell apart, it was that there was never anything here. "
― Arthur Miller , The Price
89 " A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud – God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together! "
90 " Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. "
91 " PROCTOR, furious: There might also be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it. "
92 " I am amazed all over again by how magnified this project's importance has become, far beyond its being a play or an artwork. It is now a test of some kind; but of what, precisely? The incommunicability of the Chinese? If I can't claim to know my actors, I know them as well or as little as I would an American cast. I can no longer call up the notion of Chinese mysteriousness. "
― Arthur Miller , Salesman in Beijing
93 " Dad...you did it? (Shocked but keeping voice down) You did it to the others? You sent out a hundred and twenty cracked engine-heads and let those boys die! How could you do that? How? (Voice rises with anger) Dad...Dad, you killed twenty-one men! You killed them, you murdered them. (Becomes more furious) Explain it to me. Explain to me how you do it? What did you do? (Pause) Explain it to me goddammit or I will tear you to pieces! I want to know what you did, now what did you do? You had a hundred and twenty cracked engine-heads, now what did you do? Why'd you ship them out in the first place? If you knew they were cracked, then why didn't you tell them? "
― Arthur Miller , All My Sons
94 " Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use. "
95 " Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. "
96 " 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. "
97 " Certain things have to be, the sun has to rise. "
― Arthur Miller , A View from the Bridge / All My Sons
98 " Everything we are is at every moment alive in us. "
99 " Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. "
100 " The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity. "