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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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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 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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