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Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
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Fresno
California
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Goodness
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
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If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.
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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
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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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I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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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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What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
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We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
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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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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
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What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.
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Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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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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