Arthur Miller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

  Arthur Miller

  Success, Country, Thinking

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.226, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

  Arthur Miller

  Two, Giving, Weight

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.322, Bloomsbury Publishing

• In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Giving, Way

  Interview With William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March-April 2001.

• Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Couple, Men

  Death of a Salesman "Requiem" (1949)

• They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Names, Numbers

• Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Knowing, Agony

  1964 Leduc. Incident at Vichy, act1.

• Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

  Arthur Miller

  Giving, Way

  1966 Interview in the Paris Review, Summer.

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