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• The order I found was the order of disorder

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  Order, Disorder, Found

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

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• The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

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  Sleep, Dying, Finals

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• Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

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  Christmas, Children, Eye

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• What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

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  Moving, Men, Years

  William Saroyan (1984). “The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan”, Creative Arts Book Company

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• We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

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  Action, Activity

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• What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

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  Stupid, Littles, Knows

  William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

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  Happens, Unkind

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• The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

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  Hate, People, People You Hate

  "Chance Meetings". Book by William Saroyan, 1978.

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• In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

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  People, Events, Ridiculous

  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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• Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

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  Teacher, Attitude, Kids

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

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• I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

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  Wise, Stupid, Humble

  "The William Saroyan Reader". Book by William Saroyan, "The Beggars", 1958.

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• Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

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  Heart, Sorrow, World

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

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  Book, World, Opinion

  William Saroyan, James H. Tashjian (1983). “My name is Saroyan”, Coward Mc Cann

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• Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

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  Art, Memorable, Broken

  William Saroyan (1984). “The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan”, Creative Arts Book Company

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• I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

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  Time, Believe, Forgive Me

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

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  Motivational, Opportunity, Doors

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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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  Running, Loneliness, Kids

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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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.

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  San Francisco, Bored, Bay Area

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• San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

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  Art, Block, Home

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• It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

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  Fear, Hate, Our World

  Letter to Robert E. Sherwood, 1946.

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• Art is what is irresistible.

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  Art, Art Is, Irresistible

  "The End of the Mannerist Century". Book by William Saroyan, "The Pleasure of Modernist Music" by Ashby Arved, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Father, Years, Two

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• Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

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  Sunday, People, Mad

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

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• The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

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  Children, Race, Healthy

  William Saroyan (1968). “My heart's in the Highlands”

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• Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

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  Style, Genius, Kind

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