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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Opinion Journalist
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San Francisco County
California
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How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for 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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [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 brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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