“LEE: [..] She was so like the country; money obsessed her, but what she really longed for was some kind of height where she could stand and see out and around and breathe in the air of her own free life. With all her defeats she believed to the end that the world was meant to be better. . . . I don’t know; all I know for sure is that whenever I think of her, I always end up—with this headful of life!”
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“GRANDPA, putting down his paper: Why do they need this election?
ROSE: What do you mean, why they need this election?
GRANDPA: But everybody knows Roosevelt is going to win again. I still think he’s too radical, but to go through another election is a terrible waste of money.
ROSE: What are you talking about, Papa—it’s four years, they have to have an election.
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“LEE: [..] even though I knew we had a long bad time ahead of us. And so, like most people, I waited with that crazy kind of expectation that comes when there is no hope, waited for the dream to come back from wherever it had gone to hide.”
Excerpt From
The American Clock, 1980 (set in 1929)
Based in part on Studs Terkel’s Hard Times
Arthur Miller
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“ROBERTSON: Exactly, and GE is the fastest-growing company in the world because. . . .
QUINN, loves *this point*: . . . because we’ve had the capital to buy up one independent business after another. . . . It’s haunting me, Arthur—thousands of small businesses are going under every week now, and we’re getting bigger and bigger every day. ..
“TAYLOR: Well . . . it’s like they say—people in Iowa are practical. They’ll even go radical if it seems like it’s practical. But as soon as it stops being practical they stop being radical.”
Excerpt From
The American Clock, 1980 (set in 1929)
Based in part on Studs Terkel’s Hard Times
The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015
Arthur Miller
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