Quote #40

It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.

More from William Saroyan

  1. I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive.
  2. This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
  3. The only thing I can talk about is the cold because it is the only thing going on today.
  4. Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what w…
  5. I couldn't understand the language, I couldn't understand a word in the whole book, but it was somehow too eloquent to use for a fire.
  6. I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
  7. It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.
  8. If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.

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