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From out of pain, beauty.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Pain
Beauty

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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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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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Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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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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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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