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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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After all, the world is still great.
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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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