Quote #72

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

More from William Saroyan

  1. All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
  2. The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.
  3. My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
  4. The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
  5. The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
  6. The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I…
  7. I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
  8. Poetry must be read to be poetry. It may be that one reader is all that I deserve. If this is so, I want that reader to be you.

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