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“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Sit down, Willy.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Charley
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.”

As quoted in Federalism and the French Canadians (1968) by Pierre Trudeau, p. 175

“Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.”

The New York Times (9 Feb 1986)

“I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.”

As quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (11 February 2005)

“When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. … No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.”

"It Could Happen Here - And Did," http://books.google.com/books?id=SxkSdaCoHL8C&pg=PA295&dq=%22arthur+miller%22+%22panic+button%22&ei=E4VoR9-SMI34iwHf9LFo&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=f0iKJxpOGjd5_Zs83QcNtAWLpH0 New York Times (30 April 1967); also in The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1996)

“I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

John Proctor
The Crucible (1953)

“Hale: Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits — your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now — we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face!
Rebecca: Will it hurt the child, sir?
Hale: I cannot tell. If she is truly in the Devil's grip we may have to rip and tear to get her free.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

The Crucible (1953)

“You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.”

Arthur Miller The Price

The Price (1967)

“We're free and clear, Willy. We're free, we're free, we're free…”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Linda
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

John Proctor
The Crucible (1953)

“And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house — in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.”

Lyman, Act 2
The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

“I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.”

The Times (11 January 1989)

“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”

Harper's (August 1958)

“I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.”

National Observer (20 January 1964)

“He wants to live on through something — and in his case, his masterpiece is his son… all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.”

On Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (9 May 1984)

“Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)