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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
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I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
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The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
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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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We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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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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San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.
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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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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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Kids are always the only future the human race has.
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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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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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Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
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Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
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Nothing good ever ends.
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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 have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
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I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
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