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Death of a Salesman . Quote Review. I don’t know what gets into me, maybe I just have an overdeveloped sense of competition or something, but I went and ruined her, and furthermore I can’t get rid of her.
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Death of a Salesman Quote Review
I don’t know what gets into me, maybe I just have an overdeveloped sense of competition or something, but I went and ruined her, and furthermore I can’t get rid of her.
Today it’s all cut and dried, and there’s no chance from bringing friendship to bear – or personality. You see what I mean? They don’t know me anymore.
…he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.
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.
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never walk out of the jungle that way.
…when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out…And by God I was rich.
A man who can’t handle tools is not a man. You’re disgusting.
You do make me laugh. It’s good for me…And I think you are a wonderful man.
I’m not going to pay that man! That goddam Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the manufacturer of that car!
Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want.
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.
I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody!
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.
You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit.
Sometimes I want to just rip my clothes off in the middle of the store and outbox that god@#$ merchandise manager.
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…He fought it out here, and this is where I’m gonna win it for him.
Nobdaydast blame this man. A salesman has got to dream…It comes with the territory.