William Saroyan Quotes on Meaning
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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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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I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
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Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way.
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.