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101 " If I have to be alone I want to be by myself. "
― Arthur Miller
102 " You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore "
― Arthur Miller , The Crucible
103 " Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.But if you can't walk away?I guess that's when it's tough. "
― Arthur Miller , Death of a Salesman
104 " More Weight-Giles Corey- "
105 " The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. "
106 " If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. "
107 " A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. "
108 " If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact. "
109 " A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. "
110 " 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. "
111 " Nobody dast blame this man. You don’t understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there’s no rock bottom to the life. He don’t put a bolt to a nut, he don’t tell you the law or give you medicine. He’s a man way out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple spots on your hat and your finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream boy, it comes with the territory. "
112 " Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese! "
113 " Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. "
114 " You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces. "
― Arthur Miller , All My Sons
115 " Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it. "
116 " What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women! "
117 " 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. "
118 " we are only what we always were "
119 " Because most people ain't people. "
― Arthur Miller , A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
120 " There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits "