"Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to……" — William Saroyan
"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."
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William Saroyan
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117 Quotes by William Saroyan
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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
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Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
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I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at…
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How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English…
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little…
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My work is writing, but my real work is being.
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Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
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Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all…
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People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.
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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…
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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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