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Quotes from Seventy Thousand Assyrians — William Saroyan

1908–1981 Armenia

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10 quotes

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

I have a faint idea what it is like to be alive.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

I do not believe in races. I do not believe in governments.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

A man must pretend not to be a writer.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

I am out here in the far West, in San Francisco, in a small room on Carl Street, writing a letter to common people, telling them in simple language what they already know.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Saroyan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.