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“My writing is careless, but all through it is something that is good, that is mine alone, that no other writer could ever achieve.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“One nickel, one secret. No exchanges, no refunds.”

William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

“You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“I had three secrets and sold them all.”

William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

“I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms, and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable: myself, my daemon, God, the human race, the world, time, pain, disorder, disgrace and death.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“We know more than we need to know.”

William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

“I was an old man by the time I took that walk to the Public Library in San Francisco, because the years between birth and twenty are the years in which the soul travels farthest and swiftest.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“This is a big statement and it sounds a little precious. Generally a man is ashamed to make such a statement. He is afraid sophisticated people will laugh at him. But I don't mind. I'm asking sophisticated people to laugh. That is what sophistication is for.”

William Saroyan

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

“When Andranik went away… I saw that tears were in his eyes and his mouth was twisting with agony like the mouth of a small boy who is in great pain but will not let himself cry.”

William Saroyan

Inhale and Exhale (1936), Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia

“Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way.”

William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

“He was just a young man who'd come to town on a donkey, bored to death or something, who'd taken advantage of the chance to be entertained by a small-town kid who was bored to death, too. That's the only way I could figure it out without accepting the general theory that he was crazy.”

William Saroyan

"Locomotive 38, the Ojibway" (1940)

“If the great one found out about my fight with Death, and came to be near me, what good things we might all expect from being in the world. and then around daybreak I knew I had come through, and now at last fell into real sleep — alone, and proud, and alive — now more alive than ever.”

William Saroyan

Places Where I've Done Time (1972)

“All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.”

William Saroyan

Three Times Three (1936)

“In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“I am out here in the far West, in San Francisco, in a small room on Carl Street, writing a letter to common people, telling them in simple language what they already know.”

William Saroyan

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

“Mrs. Sandoval," Homer said swiftly, "your son is dead. Maybe it's a mistake. Maybe it wasn't your son. Maybe it was somebody else. The telegram says it was Juan Domingo. But maybe the telegram is wrong.”

William Saroyan book The Human Comedy

The Human Comedy (1943)