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
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He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
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Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.
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My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision.
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I used to be the fastest telegram messenger boy in all Fresno. My nickname was "Speed." Finally, I said, "Take back your nickname. This pace is killing me." Anyway, I still write fast -- it's my impatient Armenian nature. I'm keen to find out how my plots end, and if I write faster I'll find out sooner.
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But the world was my home and I was glad to be in it.
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He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.
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If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it.
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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 variety and mystery of it.
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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.
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I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
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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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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.