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The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

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
Intervals
Best
Certainly
Everlasting
Everything
Tough
Aside
Thing
Dying
Final
Courses
Finals
Course
Sleep
Keeping
Tentative
Another
Putting
Interval
Truth
Except

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