William Saroyan Quotes - Page 2

• I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

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  Writing, Veterinarian, Knows

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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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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  Cancer, Smoking, May

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• We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

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  Say Anything, Awful, Language

  William Saroyan (2013). “My Name Is Aram”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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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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  War, Coffee, Believe

  "Short Drive, Sweet Chariot". Book by William Saroyan, 1966.

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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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  Spiritual, Cheer, Men

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

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  Waiting, Dies

  William Saroyan (1967). “Short Drive, Sweet Chariot”

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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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  America, Armenia, Earth

  William Saroyan (2005). “Essential Saroyan”

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• The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

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  World, Humans, Human Beings

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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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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  Children, Kids, World

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book b yWilliam Saroyan, 1961.

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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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  Fun, One Day, Lucky

  William Saroyan (1964). “One day in the afternoon of the world”

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• I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

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  Care, I Care

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• The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

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  Cycling, Bikers, Invention

  William Saroyan (2002). “Where the Bones Go”, Pr at California st

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• Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

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  Love, Kissing, Taste

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• Live, for this is the time of your life.

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  El momento de tu vida

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• Ningún enemigo es tan molesto como el que fue amigo o sigue siéndolo, y hay muchos más de los que uno sospecha.

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  Enemy, Annoying, Stills

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• Mi lugar de nacimiento fue California, pero no pude olvidar Armenia, así que ¿qué es el país de uno? ¿Es la tierra de la tierra, en un lugar concreto? ¿Hay ríos? ¿Los lagos? ¿El cielo de allí? ¿La forma en que sale la luna allí? ¿Y el sol? ¿Es el país de uno los árboles, los viñedos, la hierba, los pájaros, las rocas, las colinas y el verano y el invierno? ¿Es el ritmo animal de la vida? ¿Las cabañas y las casas, las calles de las ciudades, las mesas y las sillas, y beber té y hablar? ¿Es el melocotón madurando en la rama al calor del verano? ¿Son los muertos en la tierra?

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  Summer, Country, Drinking

  "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

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  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

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  Baby, Men, Race

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Writing, Ill Health, Despair

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• Vives y mueres según lo que ocurre en ti mismo, que nadie más puede siquiera empezar a conocer, ni siquiera padre, madre, esposa, hijo o hija.

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  Hija, Madre, Padre

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

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  Thinking, Men, Matter

  William Saroyan (1992). “Saroyan's Armenians: An Anthology”, Aegina Press

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• If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life......San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day.

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  Heart, Adventure, Cities

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• What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

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  Children, People, Special

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• What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

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  Media, Gente

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

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  Hate, Long, I Can

  William Saroyan (1952). “The bicycle rider in Beverly Hills”

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