Knows Quotes by William Saroyan

8 Knows quotes by William Saroyan

William Saroyan’s stories celebrate ordinary people, and these eight short reflections on knowing give a quick sense of his warm, humanistic voice.

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I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I…

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Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race…

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The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people…

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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life…San Francisco…

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There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this…

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Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

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You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even…

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Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two…

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Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live,…

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In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or…

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San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

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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…

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose history is ended, whose…

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

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