William Saroyan Quotes on Creation
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Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.
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It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
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Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.
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Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.
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Be, beget, begone.
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At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.
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In order to write all a man needs is paper and a pencil. Furthermore, when a thing has been written, it is written forever. When it is printed, nothing can stop it from being printed again and again if the thing wants to be printed again and again. I must therefore be a writer.