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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
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Fresno
California
People
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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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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.
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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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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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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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It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
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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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If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
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How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
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Kids are always the only future the human race has.
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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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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
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Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
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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.
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