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Letter "W" » William Saroyan Quotes
«No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.»
«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?»
«Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.»
«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»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| Keywords:
army, Born Free, capture, captured, mistaken, orphanage, orphanages, setting, three times
«I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
campaign, campaigned, campaigning, campaigns, campaign of, contributing, destruction, event, factor, factor in, military, military campaign, military man, The Brain, the senses
«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.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Experience,
Freedom,
Soul
| Keywords:
adherence, involvement, Order of, Personal experience
«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.»
«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 ...»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
downstream, flashing, mortification, slipping, transformation, worms
«Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
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