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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Normal people do not create art.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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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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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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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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