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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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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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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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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
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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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Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
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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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The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops
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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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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.
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We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
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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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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
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