Quote #44

If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.

More from William Saroyan

  1. I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
  2. I do not believe in races.
  3. 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…
  4. If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
  5. This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
  6. I am out here in the far West, in San Francisco, in a small room on Carl Street, writing a letter to common people, telling them in simple …
  7. It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.
  8. A man must pretend not to be a writer.

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