William Saroyan frasi celebri
“Il massimo possibile della felicità è sapere che non è indispensabile essere felici.”
Il mio cuore negli altipiani
“Posso amare un onesto idiota, ma non posso amare un genio disonesto.”
Me stesso sulla terra; 1998, p. 41
Che ve ne sembra dell'America?
“La cosa più importante in una ragazza è l'odore che fa.”
Avviso a chi vuol lavorare nelle pompe funebri; 1998, p. 203
Che ve ne sembra dell'America?
“[…] un uomo non comincia a vivere se non comincia a morire.”
Il mondo e il teatro; 1998, p. 107
Che ve ne sembra dell'America?
William Saroyan Frasi e Citazioni
Avviso a chi vuol lavorare nelle pompe funebri; 1998, p. 206
Che ve ne sembra dell'America?
Al calar del sole; 1998, pp. 162-163
Che ve ne sembra dell'America?
“Leggere fa l'uomo completo, scrivere lo fa preciso […].”
Settantamila assiri; 1998, p. 21
Che ve ne sembra dell'America?
William Saroyan: Frasi in inglese
“One nickel, one secret. No exchanges, no refunds.”
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
“You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“I had three secrets and sold them all.”
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
“I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“We know more than we need to know.”
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
Inhale and Exhale (1936), Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia
“Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.”
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
“Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way.”
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
"Locomotive 38, the Ojibway" (1940)
Places Where I've Done Time (1972)
“Don't forget that some things count more than other things.”
William Saroyan The Time of Your Life
The Time of Your Life (1939)
“I do not believe in races. I do not believe in governments.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
“My work has always been the product of my time.”
Something About a Soldier (1940)
"The Fifty Yard Dash" (1940)
“I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
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Here Comes There Goes You Know Who (1961)
“If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
“A man must pretend not to be a writer.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
“Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
