“I realized what a ridiculous lie
my whole life has been.”
“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 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?”
“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.”
“Will you let me go for Christ's
sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”
“See, Biff, everybody around me is
so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...”
“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.”
By Arthur Miller-Playright
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