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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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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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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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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.
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I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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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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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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