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William Saroyan
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„My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.“
„Now, having a play on the same bill with a play by the one and only, the good and great, the impish and noble, the man and superman, George Bernard Shaw, is for me an honor, and I think a most fitting thing.“
„I did my best, and let me urge you to do your best, too. Isn’t it the least we can do for one another?“
„It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.“
„There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.“
„Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.“
„At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.“
„The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?“
„This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.“
„A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead.“
„I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.“
„I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.“
„Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.“
„Art is what is irresistible.“
„Illness is essentially discomfort, and it is not easy for anybody to be comfortable all the time… in his body, in his work, in his house, or in his soul.“
„The end of life evokes the errors of it, and a fellow wishes he had known better.“
„My work is writing, but my real work is being.“
„Boredom was the plague of my childhood. While I was at the orphanage, the boredom came from being in a place I did not wish to be. I was bored. I was bored the entire four years I was there.“
„I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.“
„What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.“
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