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I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

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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I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.
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She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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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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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
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Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.
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Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
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Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.
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The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
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San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.
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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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If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
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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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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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