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“… an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Source: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

Arthur Miller

As quoted in The Observer [London] (26 November 1961)

“A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Rebecca Nurse
Source: The Crucible (1953)

“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 book Death of a Salesman

Source: Death of a Salesman

“Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.”

Arthur Miller All My Sons

Source: All My Sons

“More Weight
-Giles Corey”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Source: Death of a Salesman (1949)

“I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Source: Death of a Salesman

“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Linda
Source: Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

John Hale
Source: The Crucible (1953)
Context: It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. I beg you, woman, prevail upon your husband to confess. Let him give his lie. Quail not before God's judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride.

“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.”

Arthur Miller

Source: Death Of A Salesman

“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!”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Biff
Source: Death of a Salesman (1949)