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William Saroyan est un écrivain arméno-américain, auteur de nombreuses pièces de théâtre et de nouvelles basées sur son expérience de fils d’immigrants arméniens. Ses histoires ont été très populaires aux États-Unis pendant la période de la Grande Dépression. Saroyan, qui a grandi à Fresno, le principal centre de la population arméno-américaine de Californie, situe une grande partie de ses livres dans cette ville, à laquelle il donne parfois un nom fictif. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. août 1908 – 18. mai 1981
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William Saroyan: Citations en anglais

“I have been vitally aware of the Law of Opposites, and this awareness has kept me reasonably serene… the drama of life… the play of truth. the quarrel of fools and frauds, male and female, the classic and the romantic, the disciplined and the free… the comic and the tragic contrasting of the opposites in all areas of possibility and on and on and on.”

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Obituaries (1979)

“I was four years old, and had long since reasoned that it was folly to expect the big things from people. It was enough to get the little things. The biggest thing, of course, was love, the nearness of somebody you love when you need somebody to be near.”

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Places Where I've Done Time (1972)

“Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.”

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My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world.”

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Little Children (1937)

“It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.”

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My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“One of us is obviously mistaken.”

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To a critic who had panned his latest play, in The New York Mirror (10 June 1960)

“Be, beget, begone.”

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Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)

“Cowards are the nicest people, the most interesting, the gentlest, the most refined, the least likely to commit crimes.”

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Madness in the Family (1988)

“The bicycle is a city thing, virtually useless anywhere excepting on a pavement or hard surface of some kind. Without the road it would never have been invented. It is a little mad, both in design and purpose. Two wheels held together in a frame, with a simple mechanical system enabling a forward movement for one person.”

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Madness in the Family (1988)

“Going around the world on a bicycle is no longer enough -- the daredevil has got to go around the moon on a Pogo stick with one arm tied behind him if he wants to get his picture in the paper.”

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Madness in the Family (1988)

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