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Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

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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
Student
Failed
Poet
Students
American
Presbyterian
Presbyterians
Theological
Preacher

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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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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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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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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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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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Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
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We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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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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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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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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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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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
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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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I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
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