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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
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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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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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