Quote #77

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

More from William Saroyan

  1. 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.
  2. In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
  3. 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…
  4. I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms, and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable: myself, my daem…
  5. The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
  6. I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.
  7. The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.
  8. Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.

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