He wants to live on through something and in his case, his masterpiece is his son all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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On Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (9 May 1984)Arthur Miller
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The appropriate emotion is shame shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. When someone works for less pay than she can live on when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The "working poor," as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else.
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Work is a masterpiece, one of the few very best of its kind in the world.
Thomas Edward (T. E.) Lawrence
The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.
George Moore
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. They are the models of excellence the rest of the world marvels about. Join this unique team of people known as the few who do versus the many who wish result-oriented people who produce their life exactly as they desire it.
Anthony Robbins
Certainly, we live in a different world ... for the first time in all of known human history, we live in a world absent of the likelihood of superpower conflict. Now we live in a world in which there are superpowers, but we're not butting heads all the time. That's a very good thing for the world... but... there's still a few bad guys out there.
Tom Clancy
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