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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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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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The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
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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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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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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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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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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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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.
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Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
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Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.
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She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.
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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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I believe in anything that works.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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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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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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