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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 again.
Arthur Miller
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
Arthur Miller
You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
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 paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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 because other people will suffer.
Arthur Miller
Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.But if you can't walk away?I guess that's when it's tough.
Arthur Miller
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
Arthur Miller
I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw - the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?
Arthur Miller
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Arthur Miller
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
Arthur Miller
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
Arthur Miller
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Arthur Miller
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
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 the minute I say I know who I am.
Arthur Miller
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
Arthur Miller
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
Arthur Miller
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
Kathryn Schulz
The late novelist and critic John Updike once noted that the trouble with writing book reviews is that it is almost impossible to…avoid the tone of being wonderfully right.
John Updike
He must try to stop swearing; he wonders why he's doing it. To keep them apart, maybe; he feels a dangerous tug drawing him toward this man.
John Updike
It's the truth. It just felt like the whole business was fetching and hauling, all the time trying to hold this mess together she was making all the time.
John Updike
He realizes that the heat on his cheeks is anger; he has been angry ever since he left that diner full of mermaids.
John Updike
He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I'm outside or is it all America?
John Updike
The farther he drives the more he feels some great confused system, Baltimore now instead of Philadelphia, reaching for him.
John Updike
Although this block of brick three-stories is just like the one he left, something in it makes him happy; the steps and windowsills seem to twitch and shift in the corner of his eye, alive. This illusion trips him. His hands lift of their own and he feels the wind on his ears even before, his heels hitting heavily on the pavement at first but with an effortless gathering out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. Ah: runs. Runs.
John Updike
Everybody who tells you how to act has whisky on their breath.
John Updike
When I ran from Janice I made an interesting discovery." The tears bubble over her lids and the salty taste of pool-water is sealed into her mouth. "If you have the guts to be yourself," he says, "other people'll pay your price.
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Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.
by Mitch Albom
All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.
by Alexander McCall Smith
In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're putting law degrees in cornflakes boxes these days.
by Alexander McCall Smith
The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven – Bertie's age – the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. {All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.}
by Alexander McCall Smith
Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search. And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end? I shrugged. You see? He leaned back. He smiled. When you come to the end, that's where God begins.
by Mitch Albom
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
by Mitch Albom
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
by Mitch Albom
we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality-and, in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
by Mitch Albom
Where there's bluster, thinks Luisa, there's duplicity
by David Mitchell
But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.
by David Mitchell
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