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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
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Fresno
California
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I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
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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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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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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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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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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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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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I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
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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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Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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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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All things lie dark in possibility.
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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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