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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
Better
Every
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Men
World
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All of the sudden, he said, I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.
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Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
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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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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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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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Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
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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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I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.
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Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.
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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
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San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.
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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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