Quote #69

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

More from William Saroyan

  1. I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
  2. My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
  3. I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill heal…
  4. All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
  5. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
  6. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
  7. You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
  8. The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.

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