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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world’s bad books.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

When I think of the good things still to be written I am glad, for there is no end to them, and I know I myself shall write some of them.

The writer is everybody’s best friend and only true enemy – the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be grown up, but it seems as if that’s when a fellow starts, because that’s when a fellow starts finding out about things.

Everything is changed for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the world has always been full of that loneliness.

I believe in anything that works.

The simple fact was that if the song wasn’t about me, I couldn’t see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

Stories Quotes

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.

What a people talk about means something. What they don’t talk about means something.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

The Tax Collector’s letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven’t paid him.

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Art is what is irresistible.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one’s hunches about somebody one has met.

I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can’t see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

I’m not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself...

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

My work has always been the product of my time.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I’m not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can’t? The question is, who can get an answer?

Even after you’ve won fame and fortune, every time you write you’ve got to write, there’s no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn’t dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn’t know any better.

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody’s business.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

I used to throw things out, saying, ‘This isn’t great.’ It didn’t occur to me that it didn’t have to be great.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

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