“All things lie dark in possibility.”
Source: Three Times Three
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Famous William Saroyan Quotes
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.”
“In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.”
Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure
“Remember that every man is a variation of yourself”
Source: The Time of Your Life
“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”
Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader
“The order I found was the order of disorder”
Source: The bicycle rider in Beverly Hills
“What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.”
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”
Source: One day in the afternoon of the world
“We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.”
Source: My Name Is Aram
Source: Essential Saroyan
“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”
Source: Essential Saroyan
Source: Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever
“Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.”
Source: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories
“I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.”
Source: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories
“I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.”
“Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.”
“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.”
Source: Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon. (2. Print.)
“My work is writing, but my real work is being.”
Source: The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan
“Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.”
“People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.”
Source: My name is Saroyan
Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader
Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure
“All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.”
Source: Three Times Three
“Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
Source: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories