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“A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.”
Charley
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Context: Nobody dast blame this man. Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
“I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
On the Duties of Man (1844-58)
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 43.
Source: The Adventures of Huck Finn
Context: So there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it and aint't agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.
“I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Maxim 441, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
Hearts and Crafts.
Song lyrics, Portrait - The Music of Dan Fogelberg (1997)