69 ordspråk av William Saroyan
William Saroyan
William Saroyan föddes den August 31st 1908 och dog den 18 May 1981 - known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty.
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 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. |
| Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let be free and unashamed. |
| 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. |
| The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. |
| The love of a family is life's greatest blessing |
| The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough |
| The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough |
| The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. |
| They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. |
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