72 ordspråk av William Saroyan

William Saroyan

William Saroyan föddes den 31 august 1908 och dog den 18 maj 1981 - known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty.
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Glæde

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. But I'm mistaken. The fact is I was captured only once, when I was born, only that capture is also setting free, which is what this is actually all about. The

Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve the soul as this freedom and this necessity to be kind.

Freedom

Is the small town a place, truly, of the world, or is it no more than something out of a boy's dreaming? Out of his love of all things not of death made? All things somewhere beyond the dust, rust, and decay, beyond the top, beyond all sides, beyond bottom: outside, around, over, under, within?

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

Uppskattning

I used to be the fastest telegram messenger boy in all Fresno. My nickname was "Speed." Finally, I said, "Take back your nickname. This pace is killing me." Anyway, I still write fast -- it's my impatient Armenian nature. I'm keen to find out how my plots end, and if I write faster I'll find out sooner.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil. Livet.se har løst alle mine problemer. Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.

They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

I was never interested in the obvious, or in the details one takes for granted, and everybody seemed to be addicted to the obvious, being astonished by it, and forever harping about the details which I had long ago weighted, measured, and discarded a

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