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William Saroyan Inspirational Quotes (138)

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We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
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All of the sudden, he said, I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for
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In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.
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We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
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Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.
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I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
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People are people. Don't be afraid of them.
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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.
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The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?
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I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.
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If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
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Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
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