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William Saroyan Quotes

«My work is writing, but my real work is being.»
«We get very little wisdom from success, you know.»
«Everybody has got to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | About: Death and dying | Keywords: exception
«Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | Keywords: godliness
«They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.»
«I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | Keywords: go in, knock, opened
«I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a»
«If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | Keywords: bother, weigh
«He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | Keywords: passenger
«Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | About: Mankind

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