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I believe in anything that works.

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
Works
Anything
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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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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.
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The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.
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I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
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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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In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
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Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
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Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
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What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?
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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'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.
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The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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My work has always been the product of my time.
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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
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