The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive…

Quote by William Saroyan

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I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain...

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain...

When mans no more than an animal, hes worse than a beast.

When mans no more than an animal, hes worse than a beast.

Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human...

Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to...

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining...

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining...

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human...

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human...

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they...

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they...

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place...

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place...

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as...

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as...

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you...

In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you...

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a...

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see...

If I condemn mankind too much it is because I know myself too well.

If I condemn mankind too much it is because I know myself too well.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when...

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when...

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides...

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides...

When anger rises, think of the consequences

When anger rises, think of the consequences

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke,...

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke,...

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is...

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is...