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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
Biographer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Screenwriter
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Antidotes
Antidote
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Life

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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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