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DOAS Quotes. Who is speaking? To whom is being addressed?. “…You’re not letting me tell you what I want to tell you!”. “Where are you guys…The woods are burning!”. “ Attention, attention must be paid to such a person.”. “I’m not a dime a dozen”. “We’re free and clear”.
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DOAS Quotes Who is speaking? To whom is being addressed?
“Even your grandfather was better than a carpenter…Bernard does not whistle in the elevator, I assure you.”
“Maybe we could buy a ranch. Raise cattle, use our muscles. Men built like we are should be working out in the open.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Miss Forsythe, you’ve just seen a prince walk by. A fine, troubled prince.”
“Sometimes I want to just rip my clothes off in the middle of the store and out box that goddam merchandise manager. I mean I can outbox, outrun and outlift anybody in that store, and I have to take orders from those common, petty sons-of bitches till I can’t stand it any more.”
“You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit!”
“Even your grandfather was better than a carpenter. You never grew up. Bernard does not whistle in the elevator, I assure you.
“You take it too hard. To hell with it. When a deposit bottle is broken you don’t get your nickel back.”
“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.”
“Maybe we could buy a ranch. Raise cattle, use our muscles. Men built like we are should be working out in the open.”
“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—to come out number-one man. He fought it out here, and this is where I’m gonna win it for him.”
“A man can’t go out the way he came in…a man has got to add up to something.”
“The man don’t know who we are! We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house.”
“I’m not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, boys, you understand? There’s a big blaze going all around.”
. “Cause I get so lonely – especially when business is bad and there’s nobody to talk to. I get the feeling that I’ll never sell anything again, that I won’t make a living for your or a business for the boys.”