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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

William Saroyan

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
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Fresno
California
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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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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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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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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No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
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Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.
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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.
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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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Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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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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