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A man must pretend not to be a writer.

— William Saroyan

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  1. 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 …
  2. 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…
  3. If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
  4. Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.
  5. I do not believe in races.
  6. Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
  7. If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.
  8. I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.

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Topics in this quote

  • art
  • identity
  • writing
  • career
  • pretension

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