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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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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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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
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I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
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To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
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Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.
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No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
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I believe in anything that works.
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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People are people. Don't be afraid of them.
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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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Nothing good ever ends.
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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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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
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