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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
Fragment
Fragments
Beautiful
Book
Make
Life

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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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The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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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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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 writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
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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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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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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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What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?
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I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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I believe in anything that works.
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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
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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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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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Nothing good ever ends.
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