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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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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 may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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