William Saroyan Quotes - Page 6

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• Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.

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  Artist, Movement, May

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• How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

  William Saroyan

  Wise, Art, Writing

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• San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Adventure, San Francisco

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• The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

  William Saroyan

  People, Comedy, Sense Of Humor

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• Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

  William Saroyan

  Perspective, Myth, Sooner Or Later

  "Memories of the Depression". Book by William Saroyan, 1981.

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• People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

  William Saroyan

  People

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• All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Stories, Easy

  William Saroyan (1936). “Three Times Three”

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• The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

  William Saroyan

  Mad, Laughing

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

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• All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

  William Saroyan

  Believe, Reaching, Discontent

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• The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

  William Saroyan

  Letters, Taxes, Stills

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• The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

  William Saroyan

  Song, Good Luck, Simple

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

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• You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Play, Way

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

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• I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

  William Saroyan

  Time, Earth, One Time

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, New Directions Publishing

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• The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

  William Saroyan

  Events, Stories, Form

  1934 The DaringYoungMan on the FlyingTrapeze,'A Cold Day'.

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• Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

  William Saroyan

  Students, Poet, Preacher

  "Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever". Book by William Saroyan, 1976.

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• This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

  William Saroyan

  Feelings, Young Writers, Said

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, New Directions Publishing

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• What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

  William Saroyan

  Silence, Streets

  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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• 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

  William Saroyan

  Lonely, Two, Papa

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• Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

  William Saroyan

  Greatness, Hunches, Mets

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

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• Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

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  Writing, Done, Way

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

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• Whoever the kid had been, whoever had 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.

  William Saroyan

  Teacher, Attitude, Kids

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

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• There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

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  Vanity, Facts, Recognition

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

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• Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

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  Men, Good Man, World

  "I Used to Believe I Had Forever - Now I'm Not So Sure". Book by William Saroyan, 1968.

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• I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

  William Saroyan

  Clever, War, Men

  William Saroyan (1936). “Inhale & exhale”, Books for Libraries

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• I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

  William Saroyan

  War, Writing, World

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