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William Saroyan

William Saroyan (/səˈrɔɪən/; August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. 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.

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

Afraid, People

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

Mean, People, Talk

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.

Father, Nothing, Remember, Take, Two, Years

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 delight and mystery of it. "

Add, Life, Sorrow, Wondrous

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

Cheer, Discontented, Friend, Men, Multitude, Spiritual

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.

Attitude, Heeded, Kids, Law, Man, Teacher

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres. . . I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

Audiences, Laughing, People, Times, Upset, Upsetting

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

Children, Christmas, Eye, Eyes, Reflected

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

Race, Unattractive, Unreal, Writing, Years

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

Effectively, Grateful, Hurt, Madness

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

Intelligent, Loaded, Nothing, Sometimes, Thing

Be grateful for yourself. . . be thankful.

Being Thankful, Grateful, Gratitude, Thankful

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

Death, Good Times, Time, Time Of Your Life, Touches, Ugliness

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Beautiful, Book, Fragment, Fragments, Make

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

Doctors, Health, Live, Matter, Spirit

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

Book, Consideration, Impression, Whispered

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Wise, Ignorant, Abysmally, Enormously

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?

Believe, Coffee, Desirable, Madness, Taking, War

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

Art, Bad, Baseball, Caring, Game, Know

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

Capacity, Genius, Men, Play

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