William Saroyan
William Saroyan
William Saroyanwas an American dramatist and author. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 August 1908
CityFresno, CA
good man
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
failure good people wisdom
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
alive good great lets paints remind saw sure
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...
song good-luck simple
The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
men good-man world
Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.
men good-man idiot
Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
hiding goodness found
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
good-times time-of-your-life ugliness
In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
work
Without pressure, the work doesn't get done at all.
god kids noticed pride slowly society sticky worms
This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God ...
guilt inferior innocence man nor remember variation
Be the inferior of no man, nor of any be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
above beyond cease ends image knew longer loveliness man reached sleep train truly until
While the train was going by, I knew that a man will go away without ever having reached anywhere, and never will the image of loveliness just beyond all things, all ends and edges, over and above and within, cease to be in his sleep until he is truly one who is no longer alive, and no longer able to sleep at all.
decent giver hell looking thanks
What the hell are they all looking for? A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all, with thanks for the bother.
glad home
But the world was my home and I was glad to be in it.