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William Saroyan Inspirational Quotes (138)

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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
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The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.
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Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
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The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
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The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.
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Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
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I believe in anything that works.
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Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
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You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.
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Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
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I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
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The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
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I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.
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Nothing good ever ends.
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I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.
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