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
despise evil godliness men un
Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.
pride men knowing
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.
men cities empty-life
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.
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 variation remember
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
men pretty-woman world
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?
men guilt variation
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.
clever war men
I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.
men good-man idiot
Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.
men self luck
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
life men rehearsing
It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
men play may
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
baby men civilization
Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
men competition world
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.