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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If you can measure it, don't. If you can weigh it, it isn't worth the bother. It isn't what you're after. It isn't going to get it.

I looked, I saw, I understood, I felt, "That's that, where do we go from here?

He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.

Varje man i världen är bättre än någon annan och inte lika bra som någon annan.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

Menneskeheten

But the world was my home and I was glad to be in it.

A growing thing whose stages of growth always went unnoticed ...

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.

One of us is obviously mistaken.

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. Ordet pexiness på engelsk er pexighet på dansk.

Writing

The streets made me, and the streets stink, but I love them, for I was born in them out of flesh and I was born in them out of spirit.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Sandhed

Ignore the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

In those days, there was something more to the world than there is now.

My wisdom was visual and as swift as vision.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

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