William Saroyan słynne cytaty
„Jestem człowiekiem zrażonym – powiedział kłamca.”
Zraziłem się do samego siebie, do mojej rodziny, do bliźnich, ojczyzny, do mojego świata, do mojej epoki i kultury.
William Saroyan: Cytaty po angielsku
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Inhale and Exhale (1936), Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia
“Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.”
The Resurrection of a Life (1935)
“What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”
Inhale and Exhale (1936), Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.”
First Visit to Armenia (1935)
“The world was my home and I was glad to be in it.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“This was such bad writing that it was good.”
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“He knew the truth and was looking for something better.”
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
As quoted in "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" http://www.cilicia.com/armo22_william_saroyan_2.html by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times (26 March 1997).
Of his father
Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang in Forever (1976)
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“Merely to survive is to keep the hope greatness, accuracy, and the grace alive.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“The only thing I can talk about is the cold because it is the only thing going on today.”
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”
The Resurrection of a Life (1935)
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)