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I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

William Saroyan

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.
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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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In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
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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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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.
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Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
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