The best Quotes by William Saroyan

The best Quotes by William Saroyan

William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy. Saroyan is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

The loneliness does not come from the war. The war did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the war.
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Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.
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At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.