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If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
William Saroyan
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William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
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I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
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I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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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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The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
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When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
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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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No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.
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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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Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
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