01c. 1934 ADYou may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.William Saroyan / quote ↗
02c. 1934 ADBut 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 / quote ↗
04c. 1934 ADThe greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.William Saroyan / quote ↗
05c. 1934 ADEverybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.William Saroyan / quote ↗
07c. 1934 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
08c. 1934 ADThis is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.William Saroyan / quote ↗
10c. 1934 ADAll great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.William Saroyan / quote ↗
11c. 1934 ADWhen Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was homWilliam Saroyan / quote ↗
13c. 1934 ADA poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.William Saroyan / quote ↗
14c. 1934 ADI do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.William Saroyan / quote ↗
15c. 1934 ADAlthough 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 / quote ↗
16c. 1934 ADYou know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist PartyWilliam Saroyan / quote ↗
17c. 1934 ADHow 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1934 ADWhatever 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1934 ADOne picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand wordsWilliam Saroyan / quote ↗
20c. 1934 ADThe idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.William Saroyan / quote ↗
21c. 1934 ADWhat a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.William Saroyan / quote ↗
22c. 1934 ADThe writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.William Saroyan / quote ↗
23c. 1934 ADThere 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.William Saroyan / quote ↗
24c. 1934 ADThe purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?William Saroyan / quote ↗
