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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Fuel
Warm
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Use
Keep
Michelangelo
Best
Freezing
Never
Indignation
Burns

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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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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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