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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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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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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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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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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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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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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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The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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