Truth Quotes by William Saroyan

8 Truth quotes by William Saroyan

Saroyan’s eight snippets capture his trademark warmth while turning an honesty. It’s a quick, heartfelt stop that feels like a friendly chat about the simple yet stubborn nature of truth.

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that…

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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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The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another…

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Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse…

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“But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at…

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Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it…

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Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his…

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I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America…

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“This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.”

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I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take…

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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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“This sense of being out of time has driven thousands of people from their homes into moving-picture theaters where new universes appear before them,…

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