William Saroyan: Quotes about the world

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“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)

“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)

“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)

“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)

“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)