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DOAS QuotesWho is speaking?To whom is being addressed?
•“…You’re not letting me tell you what I want to tell you!”
• “Where are you guys…The woods are burning!”
• “Attention, attention must be paid to such a person.”
• “I’m not a dime a dozen”
•“We’re free and clear”
• “Can’t you stay a few days? You’re just what I need.”
•“Bah!”
•“Even your grandfather was better than a carpenter…Bernard does not whistle in the elevator, I assure you.”
•“Maybe we could buy a ranch. Raise cattle, use our muscles. Men built like we are should be working out in the open.”
•“Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”
• “. . . that’s not my father. He’s just a guy.”
• “Can’t you stay a few days? You’re just what I need. . .because I—I have a fine position here, but I—well, Dad left when I was such a baby and I never had a chance to talk to him and I still feel—kind of temporary about myself.”
• “We’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years.”
• “I’ve always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I’ve done is to waste my life.”
• “To put up a ceiling is a mystery to me. How do you do it?”
• “Miss Forsythe, you’ve just seen a prince walk by. A fine, troubled prince.”
• “Sometimes I want to just rip my clothes off in the middle of the store and out box that goddam merchandise manager. I mean I can outbox, outrun and outlift anybody in that store, and I have to take orders from those common, petty sons-of bitches till I can’t stand it any more.”
• “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit!”
• “Even your grandfather was better than a carpenter. You never grew up. Bernard does not whistle in the elevator, I assure you.
• “You take it too hard. To hell with it. When a deposit bottle is broken you don’t get your nickel back.”
• “You’re my foundation and my support.”
• “The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.”
• “Maybe we could buy a ranch. Raise cattle, use our muscles. Men built like we are should be working out in the open.”
• “I’m going to show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have—to come out number-one man. He fought it out here, and this is where I’m gonna win it for him.”
• “A man can’t go out the way he came in…a man has got to add up to something.”
• “The man don’t know who we are! We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house.”
• “I’m not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going all around.”
• "A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man."
• “What’s the answer?”
• . “Cause I get so lonely – especially when business is bad and there’s nobody to talk to. I get the feeling that I’ll never sell anything again, that I won’t make a living for your or a business for the boys.”