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"My Name Is Aram" Quotes
"My Name Is Aram" by William Saroyan is a collection of fourteen interconnected short stories about a young Armenian-American boy named Aram Garoghlanian growing up in Fresno, California, during the Great Depression.
Quotes
You must understand, Aram, that when you are at ease with yourself, you are at ease with others.
Sometimes a lie can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
The world is full of things you don’t see until you are old enough to see them.
People who try to do their best always do their worst.
Every time I see a man who looks like he might amount to something, I know he’s not going to be happy.
You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts.
The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you work for someone else.
A man who is afraid won’t be able to think.
Nothing is harder to tell than a truth that hurts.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
