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Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

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
Fragments
Beautiful
Book
Make
Life
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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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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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
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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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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.
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The order I found was the order of disorder
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Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
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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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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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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
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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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Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
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I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.
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