102 quotes
I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
The Crucible (1953)
Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!
The Crucible (1953)
Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!
The Crucible (1953)
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.
A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing — his sense of personal dignity.
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
After the Fall (1964)
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.
Death of a Salesman (1949)
I think one must finally take one's life in one's arms.
After the Fall (1964)
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play — but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
More important, from this total questioning of what has previously been unquestioned, we learn.
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
The Crucible (1953)
Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
The Crucible (1953)
I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Isn't that — isn't that remarkable? Biff — he likes me!
Death of a Salesman (1949)