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William Saroyan Inspirational Quotes (138)

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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
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Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
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I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
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Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
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I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.
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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
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I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
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There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.
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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?
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All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.
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Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
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It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
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Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
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