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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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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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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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After all, the world is still great.
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Religion will never show the way.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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