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William Saroyan Quotes

«Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | About: Failure, Wisdom | Keywords: come to
«Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.»
«No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would suspect.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | About: Enemies, Friends | Keywords: annoyed, annoying, suspect
«The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough»
«I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.»
«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 variety and mystery of it.»
«The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: role, tolerated
«Nothing good ever ends.»
«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?»
«I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | About: Fear

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