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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
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Fresno
California
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What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
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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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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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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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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.
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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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One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.
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You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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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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Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
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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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Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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