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The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
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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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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
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Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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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
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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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Art is what is irresistible.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
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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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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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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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I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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