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The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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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. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encou..
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
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I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing
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She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.
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You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
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You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.
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You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?
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I know you will remember this -- that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world -- no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
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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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William Saroyan |
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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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William Saroyan |
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What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
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People are people. Don't be afraid of them.
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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant
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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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I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
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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. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...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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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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Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.
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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.
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I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?
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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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I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
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To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
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Live, for this is the time of your life.
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The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy -- the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.
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He was under the impression that he belonged wherever there was something interesting to see.
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Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him.
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All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for"
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I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
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William Saroyan |
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All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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William Saroyan |
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The order I found was the order of disorder.
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William Saroyan |
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All things lie dark in possibility.
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William Saroyan |
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All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.
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William Saroyan |
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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
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William Saroyan |
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One of us is obviously mistaken.
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William Saroyan |
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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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William Saroyan |
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Chance meetings with living saints and sons of bitches goes on and on.
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William Saroyan |
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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William Saroyan |
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Art is what is irresistible.
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This was such bad writing that it was good.
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