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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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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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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. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
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Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
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I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.
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Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
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Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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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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The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
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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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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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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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Nothing good ever ends.
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Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
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