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Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

— William Saroyan Memories of the Depression (1981)

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I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

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Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?

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The William Saroyan Reader (1958)

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

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