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Live, for this is the time of your life.

William Saroyan

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Fresno
California
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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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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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Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
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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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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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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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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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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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Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
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I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
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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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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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Kids are always the only future the human race has.
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