Quote help: I believe the following is an Arthur Miller quote, perhaps The Crucible or Death of a Salesman but I can’t source it, can anyone help,

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I believe the following is an Arthur Miller quote, perhaps The Crucible or Death of a Salesman but I can’t source it, can anyone help,

“and all of your friends have gone before you, and there are strangers in the seats of the mighty,who do not know you, nor your triumphs, nor your incredible value”

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theresape 4 #
Waltham, MA, US | 8 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 3 minutes after post)

It’s definitely not The Crucible. And I can’t place it in Death of a Salesman, which I have seen at least half a dozen times—although I can’t claim to have memorized it.

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Waltham, MA, US | 8 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 8 minutes after post)

I googled it, and found it in a book of essays by Arthur Miller. Here’s the link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=SxkS…

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fra37 0 #
An Unknown Location | 8 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 20 minutes after post)

Thanks theresape, I googled it many times and it never showed up…

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An Unknown Location | 8 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 26 minutes after post)

…and it is from Death of a Salesman….ya should pay more attention when you go to the theatre ;)

theresape 4 #
Waltham, MA, US | 8 months, 1 week ago (2 hours, 5 minutes after post)

Guess I should! Who speaks the line, do you know? Is it Linda, in her graveyard monologue?

My husband played Happy Loman when we were young … I never did the show, but I directed The Crucible and stage managed All My Sons.

By the way, I just extracted the phrase “strangers in the seats of the mighty” to google. I figured it was distinctive enough to get google’s attention. And it worked!

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An Unknown Location | 8 months, 1 week ago (2 hours, 10 minutes after post)

I have no idea who spoke the line, many years ago a friend gave me the quote, he was studying the play and said when he read it he thought of me, I have always remembered it (I think I have it exact, although in the past 17 years it may have wandered a bit from the original) but couldn’t ever find the source. I have ordered a copy of the play and will read and find it!!

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Waltham, MA, US | 8 months, 1 week ago (4 hours, 50 minutes after post)

I’ll try to take a peek at the script tonight.

Theresa

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