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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.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
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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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Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.
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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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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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You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.
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I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
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I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.
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Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
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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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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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No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
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The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.
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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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Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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