للحظة أبدية كان هو كل الأشياء فى آن : الطائر والسمكة والحيوان القارض والزاحف والإنسان ، وكان أمامه محيط من أثر الإنسان يتموج فى الظلام بلا نهاية. احترقت المدينة ، وتمردت الجماهير المحتشدة ، والأرض تدور مبتعدة وحين أدرك أنه يفعل مثلها ، أدار وجهه الضائع إلى السماء الخالية وأصبح بلا حلم ولا حياة ، لقد اكتمل.
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Their singing wasn’t particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.
William SaroyanThis sense of being out of time has driven thousands of people from their homes into moving-picture theaters where new universes appear before them, with emphasis on man and his major problem: a thing called, conveniently, love. The Sunday midnight shows do a thriving business, and the people go back to their homes, sick with the sickness of frustration; it is this that makes the city so interesting at night: the people emerging from the theaters, smoking cigarettes and looking desperate, wanting much, the precision, the glory, all the loveliness of life: wanting what is finest and getting nothing. It is saddening to see them, but there is mockery in the heart: one walks among them, laughing at oneself and at them, their midnight staring.
William SaroyanThe Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.
William SaroyanIn getting from Windsor to Detroit there is a choice between a free tunnel and a toll bridge, which turned out to be a short ride for a dollar, which I mentioned to the toll-collector who said, 'One of those things,' impelling me to remark to my cousin, 'Almost everything said by people one sees for only an instant is something like poetry. Precise, incisive, and just right, and the reason seems to be that there isn't time to talk prose. This suggests several things, the most important of which is probably that a writer ought not to permit himself to feel that he has all the time in the world in which to write his story or play or novel. He ought to set himself a time-limit, and the shorter the better. And he ought to do a lot of other things while he is working within this time-limit, so that he will always be under pressure, in a hurry, and therefore have neither the inclination nor the time to be fussy, which is the worst thing that happens to a book while it's being written.
William SaroyanMots clés writing
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
William SaroyanMots clés life-and-living
Eating cherries on a hot July afternoon in Michigan is one of the greatest things that can happen to anybody, and here it is right now - three minutes after three - happening to ME, and to you.
William SaroyanThe purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?
William SaroyanThis is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.
William SaroyanThere is no real freedom for the man who is in so much of a hurry that he is annoyed by the human race and by the hot glaring afternoon sun.
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