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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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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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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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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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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Normal people do not create art.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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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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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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