Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman Key Quotes

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Willy Loman - Foreshadowing his mental state, Act 1
'Willy: I have such thoughts, I have such strange thoughts.'
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Willy Loman - To Linda about the dream being hard to achieve, Act 1
'Willy: Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.'
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Willy Loman - To Biff and Happy, high expectations of the boys, Act 1
'Willy: Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y'understnad, you are going to be five times ahead of him.'
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Willy Loman - To Linda, talking about people not liking him, Act 1
'Willy: You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take me.'
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Willy Loman - To Howard, referencing Dave Singleman, Act 2
'Willy: ...he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, going into Boston - when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at the funeral.'
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Willy Loman - Dave Singleman Quote, Act 2
'Willy: what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?'
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Willy Loman - Buying Seeds, Act 2
'Willy: Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.'
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Willy Loman - To Linda, dramatic irony of the description of the house, Act 2
'Willy: All the cement, the lumber, the reconstruction I put in this house! There ain't a crack to be found in it any more.'
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Willy Loman - To Ben, dramatic irony of him being known, Act 2
'I am known!'
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Willy Loman - To Ben, about being well-liked, Act 2
'Willy: ...a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked.'
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Willy Loman - To Howard, when he is being fired, Act 2
'Willy: You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away... a man is not a piece of fruit!'
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Willy Loman - Referencing & foreshadowing death, Act 2
'Willy: Funny, y'know? After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.'
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'Willy: Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.'

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Willy Loman - To Linda about the dream being hard to achieve, Act 1

Card 3

Front

'Willy: Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y'understnad, you are going to be five times ahead of him.'

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Card 4

Front

'Willy: You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take me.'

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Card 5

Front

'Willy: ...he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, going into Boston - when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at the funeral.'

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