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Letter "W" » William Saroyan Quotes
«Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.»
«He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.»
«Without pressure, the work doesn't get done at all.»
«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 ...»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
God,
Painting
| Keywords:
long ago, paints, remind, The Blind
«The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.»
«Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let be free and unashamed.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Goodness
| Keywords:
Hide and seek, hiding, hiding place, unashamed
«No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| Keywords:
arrival, arrivals, city, come to life, Francisco, invites, San, San Francisco, The Arrival, The San
«If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.»
«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.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| Keywords:
block, dweller, Francisco, hill, immortal, literary, Literary Art, novel, poem, San, San Francisco, short stories, short story, The short story, The Whole Truth
«Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.»
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