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San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

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
Within
Hill
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Literary
Art
Immortal
Stories
Poem
Truth
Hills
Home
Block
Dweller
Whole
Short
Dwellers
Every
Novel
Francisco

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