Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Smile and a Shoeshine

(Venus and Cupid by Lotto)

"He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back, thats an earthquake, and then you get a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished."

(Arthur Miller, "Death of a Salesman")


2 comments:

  1. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”

    Richard M. Nixon

    :)

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  2. "A man can be beaten and still be undefeated."

    Hemingway

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