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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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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 an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
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Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
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