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“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.”

William Saroyan

"The Declaration of War" (1944)

“I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.”

William Saroyan

"The Armenian Writers : A Short Story" (1954)

“I do not believe in races. I do not believe in governments.”

William Saroyan

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

“My work has always been the product of my time.”

William Saroyan

Something About a Soldier (1940)

“The race was over. I was last, by ten yards. Without the slightest hesitation I protested and challenged the runners to another race, same distance, back. They refused to consider my proposal, which proved, I knew, that they were afraid to race me. I told them they knew very well I could beat them.”

William Saroyan

"The Fifty Yard Dash" (1940)

“I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“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 as irrelevant and useless. 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. My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision. I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, "That's that, where do we go from here?"”

William Saroyan

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Here Comes There Goes You Know Who (1961)

“If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.”

William Saroyan

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

“A man must pretend not to be a writer.”

William Saroyan

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

“Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“I have been to the place, Armenia. There is no nation there, but that is all the better. But I have been to that place, and I know this: that there is no nation in the world, no England and France and Italy, and no nation whatsoever.”

William Saroyan

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

“Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.”

William Saroyan

The Resurrection of a Life (1935)

“All things lie dark in possibility.”

William Saroyan

"Baby" (1936)

“What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”

William Saroyan

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

“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.”

William Saroyan

"Locomotive 38, the Ojibway" (1940)

“The 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

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)