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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
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Opinion Journalist
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San Francisco County
California
Angry
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Generous
Forgiving
Blind

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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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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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