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“The world was my home and I was glad to be in it.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

World , Home

“I have read Schopenhauer at the age of twelve with no bewilderment and no contempt of his contempt for the world and its strange inhabitants, and no contempt for the strange inhabitant himself.”

William Saroyan

Hello Out There (1941)

Age , World , Reading

“There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?”

William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

World , Time

“Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.”

William Saroyan

Something About a Soldier (1940)

War , Religion , Art

“This was such bad writing that it was good.”

William Saroyan

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day

Heartbreaking

“I had in my soul the greatest truths to tell, but when I came to the work of telling them I couldn't do it.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Truth , Soul

“I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“He knew the truth and was looking for something better.”

William Saroyan

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

Truth

“Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you.”

William Saroyan

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

Reading

“Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing… Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.”

William Saroyan

As quoted in "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" http://www.cilicia.com/armo22_william_saroyan_2.html by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times (26 March 1997).

Feeling

“Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.”

William Saroyan

Of his father
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)

“Many friendships are swift and accidental, the result of a chance meeting, followed by a permanent separation.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Friendship , Chance

“Merely to survive is to keep the hope greatness, accuracy, and the grace alive.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Hope

“The only thing I can talk about is the cold because it is the only thing going on today.”

William Saroyan

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day

“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”

William Saroyan

The Resurrection of a Life (1935)

World

“The boy on the Oakland porch goes to sleep upon the universe of ice and wakes up and remembers the death of his father and mother, and sees the sun.”

William Saroyan

Obituaries (1979)

Death , Boy , Sleep , Universe

“The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art — that is, the meaningful-real.”

William Saroyan

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Art , Time , Past

“The weakness of art is that great poems do not ennoble politics, as they certainly should, and the trouble with politics is that they inspire poets only to mockery and scorn.”

William Saroyan

Something About a Soldier (1940)

Art