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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

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
Imbecility
Loaded
Intelligent
Certainly
Anything
Nothing
Sometimes
Thing
Emotionality

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