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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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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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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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