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Religion will never show the way.

Irving Stone

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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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San Francisco County
California
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We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
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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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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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 brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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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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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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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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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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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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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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