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After all, the world is still great.

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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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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Religion will never show the way.
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I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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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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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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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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