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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
Fragment

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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
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I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
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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 simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.
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The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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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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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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Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
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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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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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There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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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.
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