DOAS Quotes

Created by: Jasmine Gadhavi
Created on: 31-01-18 11:35

'Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost.'

'The way they boxed us in here. Bricks and windows, windows and bricks'

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'Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s rich! The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress.'

'The woman has come from behind the scrim and is standing, putting on her hat, looking into a mirror and laughing.'

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'Biff, a man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.'

'Where’s my stockings? You promised me stockings, Willy! / I have no stockings here.'

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'Nothing’s planted, I don’t have a thing in the ground.'

'He died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers…'

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'I can’t throw myself on my sons, I’m not a cripple!'

'I took his fountain pen.'

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'his massive dreams and little cruelties'

'the small, fragile-seeming home. An air of the dream clings to the place

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'Only the music of the flute is left...as the hard towers of the apartment buildings rise into sharp focus.'

' We're free and clear (sobbing more fully released).We're free...We're free...'

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' He's only a little boat looking for a harbour.'

' Gotta break your neck to see a star in this yard.'

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'you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody.'

'Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being an a terrible thing is happening to him'

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'Sexuality is a like a visible colour on him, or a scent that many women have discovered.'

' she has developed an iron repression to her exceptions to Willy's behaviour.'

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'Why boys when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. (He laughs) And by God I was rich.'

'He had the wrong dreams, all, all wrong.'

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' I'm gonna show you and everyone else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have- to be number one man.'

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

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Card 2

Front

'The woman has come from behind the scrim and is standing, putting on her hat, looking into a mirror and laughing.'

Back

'Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s rich! The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress.'

Card 3

Front

'Where’s my stockings? You promised me stockings, Willy! / I have no stockings here.'

Back

Card 4

Front

'He died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers…'

Back

Card 5

Front

'I took his fountain pen.'

Back

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