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What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

William Saroyan

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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
Talk
Means
Mean
Something
People

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One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.
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I believe in anything that works.
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Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
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Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.
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Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
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Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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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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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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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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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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It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
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If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life......San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day.
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The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
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