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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
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 a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
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.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
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.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
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.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
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.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
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?
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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Arthur Miller _ Death of a Salesman
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
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