Willy

    Cards (25)

    • …his exhaustion is apparent
    • It’s all right. I came back.
    • I’m tired to the death.
    • I slept like a dead one
    • I think you need a good long rest, Willy.
    • I’m the New England man. I’m vital in New England.
    • And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England.
    • With scholarships to three universities they’re gonna flunk him?
    • That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises.
    • Be liked and you will never want.
    • Cause I get so lonely - especially when business is bad and there’s nobody to talk to.
    • You picked me?
    • I remember you walking away down some open road.
    • I still feel — kind of temporary about myself.
    • Charley, you’re the only friend I got. Isn’t that a remarkable thing?
    • Why didn’t I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time! Ben! That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate! What a mistake!
    • 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!
    • ‘Cause 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?
    • You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.
    • You can’t feel it with your hand like timber, but it’s there!
    • After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the
      years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
    • I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.
    • that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized — I am known!
    • (after a long pause, astonished, elevated): Isn’t that — isn’t that
      remarkable? Biff — he likes me!
    • Imagine? When the mail comes he’ll be ahead of Bernard again!