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The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Fresno
California
Comedy
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People
Fondly
Invariably
Meet
Humor
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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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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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All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
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Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.
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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
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I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
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I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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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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If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
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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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I believe in anything that works.
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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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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