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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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Fresno
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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