William Saroyan Quotes on Reality
-
Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
-
Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.
-
He knew the truth and was looking for something better.
-
Illness is essentially discomfort, and it is not easy for anybody to be comfortable all the time... in his body, in his work, in his house, or in his soul.
-
A man cannot write a poem or a story that will transform the whole nature of man, his reality and his truth, making them greater and nobler.
-
Jesus never said anything about absurdity, and he never indicated for one flash of time that he was aware of the preposterousness of his theory about himself. And he didn't even try to make the theory understandable in terms of the reality and experience of the rest of us. For if everybody else is also not what Jesus said he was, what good is what he said?
-
The boy on the Oakland porch goes to sleep upon the universe of ice and wakes up and remembers the death of his father and mother, and sees the sun.