# Quote — Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

> Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

- Author: [Arthur Miller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller.md)
- Book: [Death of a Salesman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller/death-of-a-salesman.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-miller/death-of-a-salesman/work-a-lifetime

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> Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!

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> And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?

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> We're free and clear, Willy. We're free, we're free, we're free...

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