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• You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

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  Daughter, Mother, Father

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

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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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• 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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  Time Of Your Life

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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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• People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

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  People

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

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  Care, I Care

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• Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

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  Stars, Moving, Ocean

  "The Human Comedy". Book by William Saroyan, 1943.

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• 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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• Kids are always the only future the human race has.

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  Life, Kids, Race

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• Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

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  Men, Good Man, Idiot

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

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• I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

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  Typewriters, Names, White

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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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• I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

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  Wise, Ignorant

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

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  Life, Men, Rehearsing

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.55, A&C Black

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• But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

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  God, Answers, Speak

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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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• Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

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  Men, Play, Genius

  "Three Times Three". Book by William Saroyan, 1936.

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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 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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• 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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• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

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  Summer, Country, Drinking

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

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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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