Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world. William Saroyan More Quotes by William Saroyan More Quotes From William Saroyan If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life. William Saroyan bay-area san-francisco bored I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant. William Saroyan ignorant wise Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality. William Saroyan imbecility intelligent sometimes I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful. William Saroyan madness grateful hurt We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan wisdom-experience sobriety congratulations 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. William Saroyan broken memorable art Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful. William Saroyan fragments beautiful book Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child. William Saroyan christmas eye children San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth. William Saroyan block home art The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably. William Saroyan misunderstood understanding said I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth. William Saroyan philosophical trying lying Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next. William Saroyan connections lasts memories What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go? William Saroyan running trying mean There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth. William Saroyan armenia land america In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. William Saroyan time-of-your-life ugliness good-times She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all. William Saroyan long-ago cry littles Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. William Saroyan hiding goodness found 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. William Saroyan ridiculous events people Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't. William Saroyan caring baseball art 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. William Saroyan sense-of-humor comedy people
