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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

William Saroyan

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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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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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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Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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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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Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
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Kids are always the only future the human race has.
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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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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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