"I understand his longing for immortality … Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone."
— Arthur Miller

January 1, 1970

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On Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (May 9, 1984)