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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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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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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.
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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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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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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 writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
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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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