William Saroyan
Birthday: 31 August 1908, Fresno, California, USA
The Oscar winner and Pulitzer Prize recipient William Saroyan, who gained world fame with his classic book "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1934), was born in California to Arme ...Show More
So that's a Broadway show. For God's sake, I could write a better one than that in twenty-four hours Show more
So that's a Broadway show. For God's sake, I could write a better one than that in twenty-four hours! [to Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, after being taken to his first Broadway play, "Ceiling Zero"] Hide
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant peopl Show more
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia. Hide
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