William Saroyan

Quotes by William Saroyan

• When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom

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• All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

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• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

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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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• The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.

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• I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

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• Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

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• It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

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• But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

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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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• All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

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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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• I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

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• But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

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• It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

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• Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

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• The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.

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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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• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

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• When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom

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