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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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Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.
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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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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 do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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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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Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
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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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The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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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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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
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