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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
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Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
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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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I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
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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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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
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I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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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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All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.
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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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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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What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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I believe in anything that works.
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Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
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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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Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
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The order I found was the order of disorder
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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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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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
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