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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

William Saroyan

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Fresno
California
Stops
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Real
Never

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I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
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How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
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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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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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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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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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