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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

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
Ever
Everything
People

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Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
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I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
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The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.
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Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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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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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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Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
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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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You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.
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I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
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We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
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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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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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Nothing good ever ends.
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Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.
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