The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
Quotes from My Heart's in the Highlands — William Saroyan
1908–1981 Armenia
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Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
It is better to be a good human being than to be a bad one. It is just naturally better.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Go ahead. Fire your feeble guns. You won't kill anything. There will always be poets in the world.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
There is only good and bad art.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Saroyan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.