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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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Armenians
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In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
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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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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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