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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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
Much
Dead
Good
Hell
Wholly
Like
Alive
Anger
Possible
Laugh
Death
Angry
Might
Soon
Enough
Motivational
Trying
Laughing

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