More from William Saroyan

  1. If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.
  2. If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
  3. I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
  4. 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 …
  5. 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…
  6. A man must pretend not to be a writer.
  7. This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
  8. I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the bigge…

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