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The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops

William Saroyan

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
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Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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Nothing good ever ends.
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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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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.
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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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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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We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
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Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
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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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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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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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