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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
Dramatist
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If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life......San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day.
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Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.
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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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It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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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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No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.
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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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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.
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I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
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The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?
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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 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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