Quotations Flashcards
I simply…
I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
Biff…
Biff is a lazy bum […] there’s one thing about Biff - he’s not lazy.
Loses…
Loses himself in reminiscences.
I don’t want…
I don’t want change […] why am i always being contradicted?
There…
There was a pig.
It got…
It got so embarrassing i sent him to Florida.
It’s what…
It’s what I always wanted […] and still goddammit, I’m lonely.
Everybody…
Every body around me is so false that I’m constantly lowering my ideals.
I don’t…
I don’t want the girl, and, still, I take it and - I love it!
Charley…
Charley is not - liked. He’s liked, but he’s not - well liked.
Five hundred…
Five hundred gross in Providence […] hundred and eighty gross in Providence.
I’m not…
I’m not noticed.
They do…
They do laugh at me. I know that.
You…
You picked me?
I got…
I got nothin’ to give him, Charley, I’m clean, I’m clean.
When i…
When i was seventeen i walked into the jungle, and when i was twenty-one i walked out. And by god i was rich.
I still…
I still feel - kinda temporary about myself.
Ben…
Ben, how should i teach them?
He…
He always wiped the floor with you.
He’s…
He’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.
I know…
I know he’s a fake and he doesn’t like anybody around who knows!
How can…
How can i insult him in that way?
Call out…
Call out the name Willy Loman and see what happens. Big shot!
It takes…
It takes so little to make him happy.
It’s cha…
It’s changing Willy, i can feel it changing!
I’d hoped…
I’d hoped he’d taken it away himself.
You can’t…
You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away.
No time…
No time for false pride, Willy. Go to your sons and tell them that you’re tired.
Enough for…
Enough for what my dear? […] enough to be happy right here, right now.
What…
What - what’s the secret?
You end…
You end up worth more dead than alive.
Dad…
Dad is never so happy as when he’s looking forward to something!
Math…
Math, math, math.
Look…
Look at what’s become of you.
That’s not…
That’s not my father. He’s just a guy.
If he saw…
If he saw the kind of man you are […] you phony little fake!
Nothing’s…
Nothings planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.
A man…
A man has got to add up to something.
A guaranteed…
A guaranteed twenty-thousand-dollar proposition.
Broken…
Broken and desperate.
That fun…
That funeral will be massive […] why didn’t anybody come?
I’m nothing…
I’m nothing Pop. Can’t you understand that?
Love…
Loves me. Always loved me. […] He’ll worship me for it.
Sounds…
Sounds, faces, voices, seem to be swarming in upon him […] shhh!
Frenzy…
Frenzy of sound, which becomes the soft pulsation of a single cello string.
Willy Loman…
Wily Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have.
We’re…
We’re free and clear.
i
i know who i am
i dont… (w to c)
i dont want your goddamn job (willy to charley)
I won’t
I won’t have you mending stockings in this house
The comp..
The competition is maddening
To suffer
To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two week vacation
For a salesmen…
for a salesman, there’s no rock bottom to the life
A star like
A star like that, magnificent, can never really fade away. (Act 1)
Will you
Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
He never…
He never knew who he was. (Act 2)
What I must be
what I must be missing on the radio […] Don’t you have a radio in the car?
- he lies to make people like him, but that probably makes him less likeable
It’s really
It’s really Harold, but at West Point they called me Happy.
- happy is a lot like willy
We’ve been
We’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years
What could be
what could be more satisfying […] to be loved
(About Dave Singleman still working at 84, dying on the train, all because his funeral was massive)
You been
You been jealous of me all your life, you damned fool
He’s put
he’s put his whole life into you and you’ve turned your backs on him
There’s not a
There’s not a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood
Before it’s
before its all over we’re gonna get a little place out in the country
Who is
who is quite proper-looking, Willy’s age
You blew
You blew me so full of hot air, I couldn’t stand taking orders from anyone
i dont
i dont know what to say […] that was my wife
she s
she shares his dreams
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whale
