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ShelbyLlewellyn on November 9, 2010
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Quotes for Death of Salesman, Medea, A Man For All Seasons and Cosi
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Man | didn't know who he was |
| Pop, | I'm nothing |
| I'm a dime a dozen | and so are you |
| He's not the finest | character that ever live. But hes a human being |
| I'm always in | a race with the junkyard |
| Why must everyone | conquer the world |
| Be liked | and you'll never want |
| There was a man who started | with the clothes on his back and ended up with diamond mines |
| A man can't go out the way he came in, Ben, | a man's got to add up to something |
| They got the biggest | ads of any of them |
| Let them understand | I am of a different kind |
| My pains a fair price to pay | to take away your smile |
| What use is life to me? I have | no land, no home, no refuge from despair |
| The mind of a queen is something to fear. | A queen is used to giving commands, not obeying them |
| Poor | Medea |
| She is not shaken with weeping, | but cool and self-possessed |
| What an evil power | love has on people's lives |
| The middle way, neither great nor mean | is best by far, in name and practise |
| Surely of all creatures that have | life and will, we women are the most wretched |
| If only children could be got some other way | without the female sex! If women didn't exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries |
| What fatal results | follow from ungoverned rage |
| Zeus will | plead your cause |
| Streams of the sacred river flow uphill, | tradition, order, all things reversed |
| The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable | is that which rages in the place of dearest love |
| Many matters | the gods bring to suprising ends |
| [Dad] used me to point and fetch the ducks. | Those lakes can get cold when you're swimming in them with a dead duck in your mouth |
| I can hangle something being an illusion | or real, but not at the same time |
| I used to have a boyfriend who | tied me up and put me in a wardrobe so I would run away |
| [It is day but | pitch black inside the theatre] |
| [[Henry] takes out a toy soldier | out of his pocket and examines it] |
| [Ruth gets a bucket | and puts it under the dripping water] |
| Love is not | important nowadays |
| I saw Julie's name in the paper. | She did of a drug overdose |
| Its a funny | farm |
| Love is an emotional indulgence | for the priviledged few |
| There would be music, music of the spheres | colourful costumes, joie de vivre, a world that was a far removed from this depressing asylum as possible |
| I can't stand real things. | If I could put up with reality, I wouldn't be in here |
| Drugs make me feel | sort of living |
| Wolsey [extinguishes candle] | More [relights candle] |
| [Rear of stage becomes | water patterned] |
| [Lighting changes from cold grey | to warm yellow] |
| A bit of black material | to reduce old Adam to the Common Man |
| Someday, someone's going to ask him | for something he wants to keep, an he'll be out of practise |
| The great things not to get | out of your depth |
| I'm breathing | Are you breathing too? |
| It isn't difficult | to keep alive friends |
| Everyman | has his price |
| But theres a little, little | area where I must rule myself |
| The currents and eddies of right and wrong | which you find such plainsailing, I can't navigate |
| And whoever hunts for me... | will find me hiding in the thickets of the law |
| I truly believe | no man in England is safer than myself |
| If you could just see the facts | flat on without any moral squint |
| If he opposes Spain, he supports us. Well, surely that follows? | Or do you see some third alternative? |
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