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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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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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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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 real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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