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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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After all, the world is still great.
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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
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If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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