Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be à when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be à when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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.
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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?
It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.
Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
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