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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
Rehearsing
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Men
Life

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All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
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Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
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Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.
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Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.
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I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
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I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
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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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If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
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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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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.
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Nothing good ever ends.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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