Arthur Miller quote: "HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna 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's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need...
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
ARTHUR MILLER

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
ARTHUR MILLER

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...
ARTHUR MILLER

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
ARTHUR MILLER

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intel...
ARTHUR MILLER

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on...
ARTHUR MILLER

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt...
ARTHUR MILLER

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in m...
ARTHUR MILLER

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and moth...
ARTHUR MILLER

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLER

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLER

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation m...
ARTHUR MILLER

Without alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLER

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLER

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and cha...
ARTHUR MILLER

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You migh...
ARTHUR MILLER

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a...
ARTHUR MILLER

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLER

[About Marilyn Monroe] she was ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…Â“highly self-destructiveÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â�...
ARTHUR MILLER

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLER

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted
ARTHUR MILLER

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money
ARTHUR MILLER

Now we settle for half and I like it better.
ARTHUR MILLER

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
ARTHUR MILLER

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift thro...
ARTHUR MILLER

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony...
ARTHUR MILLER

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
ARTHUR MILLER

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its ...
ARTHUR MILLER

A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the sam...
ARTHUR MILLER

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
ARTHUR MILLER

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
ARTHUR MILLER

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
ARTHUR MILLER

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
ARTHUR MILLER

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLER

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures a...
ARTHUR MILLER

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a r...
ARTHUR MILLER

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
ARTHUR MILLER

There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.
ARTHUR MILLER

Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this?

Chris: The business! The busin...
ARTHUR MILLER

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who...
ARTHUR MILLER

You want to live? You better figure out your life.
ARTHUR MILLER

I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because...
ARTHUR MILLER

Dad...you did it? (Shocked but keeping voice down) You did it to the others? You sent out a hundred ...
ARTHUR MILLER

You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces.
ARTHUR MILLER

Mother: What more can we be?

Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know ther...
ARTHUR MILLER

(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my...
ARTHUR MILLER

...he'll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The comprom...
ARTHUR MILLER

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the ab...
ARTHUR MILLER

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find y...
ARTHUR MILLER

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLER

It is what I do
ARTHUR MILLER

Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!
ARTHUR MILLER

I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it ha...
ARTHUR MILLER

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.
ARTHUR MILLER

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER

I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran ...
ARTHUR MILLER

If I see an ending, I can work backward.
ARTHUR MILLER

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
ARTHUR MILLER

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
ARTHUR MILLER

The word 'now' is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks
ARTHUR MILLER

I understand [Willy Loman's] longing for immortality Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a ...
ARTHUR MILLER

The word now is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
ARTHUR MILLER

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the the...
ARTHUR MILLER

Now we're eating pizza as opposed to steak.
ARTHUR MILLER

A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't workin...
ARTHUR MILLER

I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you ...
ARTHUR MILLER

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile are...
ARTHUR MILLER

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes
ARTHUR MILLER

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might se...
ARTHUR MILLER

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLER

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a...
ARTHUR MILLER

I’m one-dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn’t raise it. A buck an hour! Do yo...
ARTHUR MILLER

I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life...
ARTHUR MILLER

He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smi...
ARTHUR MILLER

He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.
ARTHUR MILLER

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.
ARTHUR MILLER

To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is...
ARTHUR MILLER

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I ...
ARTHUR MILLER

On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you
ARTHUR MILLER

What a woman! They broke the mould when they made her.
ARTHUR MILLER

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.
Willy: Then what have I got to ...
ARTHUR MILLER

I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!
ARTHUR MILLER

Nobody dast blame this man. You don’t understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there�...
ARTHUR MILLER

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
ARTHUR MILLER

It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote yo...
ARTHUR MILLER

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...
ARTHUR MILLER

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.
ARTHUR MILLER

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesma...
ARTHUR MILLER

Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.
ARTHUR MILLER

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm ...
ARTHUR MILLER

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the pape...
ARTHUR MILLER

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess t...
ARTHUR MILLER

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this...
ARTHUR MILLER

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
ARTHUR MILLER

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
ARTHUR MILLER

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
ARTHUR MILLER

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
ARTHUR MILLER

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me...
ARTHUR MILLER

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
ARTHUR MILLER

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...
ARTHUR MILLER

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.
ARTHUR MILLER

Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now,...
ARTHUR MILLER

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
ARTHUR MILLER

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer...
ARTHUR MILLER

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for ...
ARTHUR MILLER

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to li...
ARTHUR MILLER

Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!
ARTHUR MILLER

Bir inanç ortalığı kana boyuyorsa, o inanca sarılıp kalmayın, insanı canından eden bir yasa...
ARTHUR MILLER

we are only what we always were
ARTHUR MILLER

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided em...
ARTHUR MILLER

There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits
ARTHUR MILLER

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
ARTHUR MILLER

A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and...
ARTHUR MILLER

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
ARTHUR MILLER

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...
ARTHUR MILLER

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.
ARTHUR MILLER

it's the proper morning to fly into Hell.
ARTHUR MILLER

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words....
ARTHUR MILLER

Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.
ARTHUR MILLER

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find y...
ARTHUR MILLER

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
ARTHUR MILLER

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
ARTHUR MILLER

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to ...
ARTHUR MILLER

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
ARTHUR MILLER

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the ...
ARTHUR MILLER

More Weight
-Giles Corey-
ARTHUR MILLER

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

You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore
ARTHUR MILLER

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the takin...
ARTHUR MILLER

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
ARTHUR MILLER

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
ARTHUR MILLER

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLER

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will...
ARTHUR MILLER

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
ARTHUR MILLER

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancie...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of ...
ARTHUR MACHEN

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
ARTHUR ERICKSON

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR

For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG

(...) a língua é, para o espírito de uma nação, o que o estilo é para o espírito de um indiv�...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ...
ARTHUR SCARGILL

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y...
BEA ARTHUR

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEA ARTHUR

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can&#...
BEA ARTHUR

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
BEA ARTHUR

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they...
BEA ARTHUR

I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've se...
BEA ARTHUR

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR

No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna 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.

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HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna 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.

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