DOAS QuotesWho 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”

• “Can’t you stay a few days? You’re just what I need.”

•“Bah!”

•“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.”

•“Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”

• “. . . that’s not my father. He’s just a guy.”

• “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.”

• “We’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years.”

• “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.”

• “To put up a ceiling is a mystery to me. How do you do it?”

• “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.”

• “You’re my foundation and my support.”

• “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.”

• "A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man."

• “What’s the answer?”

• . “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.”