An Armenian Trilogy Quotes

“Think before you speak, think twice before you shout, think three times before you go mad.”
― William Saroyan, An Armenian Trilogy

“As for the matter of what we may expect from one another, that is indeed something we are eager to learn - all of us, all our lives, but I wonder, do we ever learn, do we ever really find out?”
― William Saroyan, An Armenian Trilogy

“Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth.”
― William Saroyan, An Armenian Trilogy

“All I can say is that there is indeed a crisis here. We cannot speak to one another in a meaningful way, every one of us is a leader, a general of the army, a king, a president, the greatest thinker of all time, and so on and so forth. This is the curse of the Armenian race.”
― William Saroyan, An Armenian Trilogy