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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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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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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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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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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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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 most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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