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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

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
Worth
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Long

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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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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'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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Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.
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Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.
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I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
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I believe in anything that works.
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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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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
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My work has always been the product of my time.
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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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