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It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.
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William Saroyan |
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The only thing I can talk about is the cold because it is the only thing going on today.
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William Saroyan |
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A man must pretend not to be a writer.
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William Saroyan |
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If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
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William Saroyan |
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I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
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William Saroyan |
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If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.
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William Saroyan |
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This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
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William Saroyan |
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It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.
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William Saroyan |
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I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive.
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William Saroyan |
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Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.
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William Saroyan |
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
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William Saroyan |
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I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.
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William Saroyan |
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There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.
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William Saroyan |
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A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
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William Saroyan |
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I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.
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William Saroyan |
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You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
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William Saroyan |
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I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
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William Saroyan |
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The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
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William Saroyan |
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My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
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William Saroyan |
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The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.
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William Saroyan |
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The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
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William Saroyan |
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I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.
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William Saroyan |
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Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.
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William Saroyan |
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I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
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William Saroyan |
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I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
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William Saroyan |
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There is only good and bad art.
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William Saroyan |
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Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.
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William Saroyan |
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I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.
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William Saroyan |
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It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.
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William Saroyan |
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Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.
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William Saroyan |
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A play is a world, with its own inhabitants and its own laws and its values.
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William Saroyan |
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Don't forget that some things count more than other things.
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William Saroyan |
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Each person belongs to the environment, in his own person, as himself.
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William Saroyan |
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My work has always been the product of my time.
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William Saroyan |
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How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?
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William Saroyan |
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He knew the truth and was looking for something better.
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William Saroyan |
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Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way.
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William Saroyan |
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I had three secrets and sold them all.
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William Saroyan |
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We know more than we need to know.
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William Saroyan |
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One nickel, one secret. No exchanges, no refunds.
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William Saroyan |
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My illness is life itself.
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William Saroyan |
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Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.
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William Saroyan |
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I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
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William Saroyan |
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I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.
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William Saroyan |