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“I have been vitally aware of the Law of Opposites, and this awareness has kept me reasonably serene… the drama of life… the play of truth. the quarrel of fools and frauds, male and female, the classic and the romantic, the disciplined and the free… the comic and the tragic contrasting of the opposites in all areas of possibility and on and on and on.”

William Saroyan

Obituaries (1979)

“I was four years old, and had long since reasoned that it was folly to expect the big things from people. It was enough to get the little things. The biggest thing, of course, was love, the nearness of somebody you love when you need somebody to be near.”

William Saroyan

Places Where I've Done Time (1972)

“Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world.”

William Saroyan

Little Children (1937)

“It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“One of us is obviously mistaken.”

William Saroyan

To a critic who had panned his latest play, in The New York Mirror (10 June 1960)

“Be, beget, begone.”

William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

“Cowards are the nicest people, the most interesting, the gentlest, the most refined, the least likely to commit crimes.”

William Saroyan

Madness in the Family (1988)

“The bicycle is a city thing, virtually useless anywhere excepting on a pavement or hard surface of some kind. Without the road it would never have been invented. It is a little mad, both in design and purpose. Two wheels held together in a frame, with a simple mechanical system enabling a forward movement for one person.”

William Saroyan

Madness in the Family (1988)

“Going around the world on a bicycle is no longer enough -- the daredevil has got to go around the moon on a Pogo stick with one arm tied behind him if he wants to get his picture in the paper.”

William Saroyan

Madness in the Family (1988)