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William Saroyan est un écrivain arméno-américain, auteur de nombreuses pièces de théâtre et de nouvelles basées sur son expérience de fils d’immigrants arméniens. Ses histoires ont été très populaires aux États-Unis pendant la période de la Grande Dépression. Saroyan, qui a grandi à Fresno, le principal centre de la population arméno-américaine de Californie, situe une grande partie de ses livres dans cette ville, à laquelle il donne parfois un nom fictif. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. août 1908 – 18. mai 1981
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William Saroyan: Citations en anglais

“My illness is life itself.”

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.”

As quoted in "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times (26 March 1997).

“The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.”

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

“Now, if Mr. Shaw and Mr. Saroyan are poles apart, no comparison between the two, one great and the other nothing, one a genius and the other a charlatan, let me repeat that if you must know which writer has influenced my writing when influences are real and for all I know enduring, then that writer has been George Bernard Shaw. I shall in my own day influence a young writer or two somewhere or other, and no one need worry about that.
Young Shaw, hello out there.”

In the The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952) Saroyan additionally wrote of Shaw:
He was a gentle, delicate, kind, little man who had established a pose, and then lived it so steadily and effectively that the pose had become real. Like myself, his nature has been obviously a deeply troubled one in the beginning. He had been a man who had seen the futility, meaninglessness and sorrow of life but had permitted himself to thrust aside these feelings and to perform another George Bernard Shaw, which is art and proper.
Hello Out There (1941)

“Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.”

Of his father, who died in William's infancy.
I Used to Believe I Had Forever — Now I'm Not So Sure (1968)

“A play is a world, with its own inhabitants and its own laws and its values.”

William Saroyan The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life (1939)

“How did roses ever happen?”

Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

“Each person belongs to the environment, in his own person, as himself.”

William Saroyan The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life (1939)

“What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.”

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

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