William, Saroyan Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by William, Saroyan
William, Saroyan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
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 city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.
I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
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.
Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom
One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words
The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.
There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
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.
What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it's impossible to help, it's always possible to hinder.
He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.
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.
We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.
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.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.
There is no real freedom for the man who is in so much of a hurry that he is annoyed by the human race and by the hot glaring afternoon sun.
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.