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William Saroyan Inspirational Quotes (138)

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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
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Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.
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I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
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The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.
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Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
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Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
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I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
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I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
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All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
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There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
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Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.
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Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
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There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
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