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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
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Fresno
California
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Humans
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Every
World
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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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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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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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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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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
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Art is what is irresistible.
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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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I believe in anything that works.
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Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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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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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
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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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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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