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It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

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
Life
Rehearsing
Takes
Men

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.
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To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
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No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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The order I found was the order of disorder
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All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.
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Kids are always the only future the human race has.
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
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I believe in anything that works.
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It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
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I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.
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Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
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I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
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