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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
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Playwright
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Fresno
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Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.
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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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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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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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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 have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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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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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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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.
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