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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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After all, the world is still great.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Normal people do not create art.
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... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
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