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Art is what is irresistible.

William Saroyan

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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Fresno
California
Irresistible
Art

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All of the sudden, he said, I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for
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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.
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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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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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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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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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People are people. Don't be afraid of them.
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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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There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
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Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
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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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But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?
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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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The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.
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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
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