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William Saroyan QUOTES

William Saroyan QUOTES

1 " You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself. "

― William Saroyan , Not Dying: An Autobiographical Interlude

2 " But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever. "

― William Saroyan

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

― William Saroyan

4 " The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. "

― William Saroyan , My Heart's in the Highlands

5 " Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. "

― William Saroyan

6 " I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death. "

― William Saroyan

7 " 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. "

― William Saroyan , My Heart's in the Highlands

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

― William Saroyan

9 " Remember that every man is a variation of yourself "

― William Saroyan

10 " All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. "

― William Saroyan , My Heart's in the Highlands

11 " When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. "

― William Saroyan , Short Drive, Sweet Chariot

12 " A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. "

― William Saroyan

13 " I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. "

― William Saroyan , The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills

14 " Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters. "

― William Saroyan

15 " You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party "

― William Saroyan

16 " How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up. "

― William Saroyan

17 " Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth. "

― William Saroyan , An Armenian Trilogy

18 " One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words "

― William Saroyan

19 " The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better. "

― William Saroyan ,

20 " What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. "

― William Saroyan