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Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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Fresno
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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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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.
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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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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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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.
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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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Kids are always the only future the human race has.
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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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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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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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