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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
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Fresno
California
Writing
Mankind
Rest
Easy
Write
Stories

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Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.
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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 saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.
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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
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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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The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
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I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
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Kids are always the only future the human race has.
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The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
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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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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
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