William Saroyan
William Saroyan
William Saroyanwas an American dramatist and author. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 August 1908
CityFresno, CA
running mean trying
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?
intelligent sometimes imbecility
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
stupid littles knows
What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
people
People are people. Don't be afraid of them.
father years two
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.
lonely two way
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
happens unkind
You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
enemy annoying stills
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.
life lying dark
All things lie dark in possibility.
time earth millions
I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
time believe forgive-me
I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
lying philosophical trying
I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.
motivational doors guy
I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.
life kids race
Kids are always the only future the human race has.