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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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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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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
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What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.
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It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
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What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?
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In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.
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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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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
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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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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
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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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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
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