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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Normal people do not create art.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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