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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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Fresno
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I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
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I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.
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Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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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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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.
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Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
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I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
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Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
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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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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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