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4 William Saroyan Quotes on World

William Saroyan quotes on world

  1. The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

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  2. Then swiftly, neatly, with the grace of the young man on the trapeze, he was gone from his body. For an eternal moment he was still all things at once: the bird, the fish, the rodent, the reptile, and man. An ocean of print undulated endlessly and darkly before him. The city burned. The herded crowd rioted. The earth circled away, and knowing that he did so, he turned his lost face to the empty sky and became dreamless, unalive, perfect.

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  3. Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.

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  4. A play is a world, with its own inhabitants and its own laws and its values.

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