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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
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Writer
Fresno
California
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Stories
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Mankind
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Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
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The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
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There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
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Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
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People are people. Don't be afraid of them.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
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What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
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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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You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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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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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
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Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
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The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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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'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
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