Irving Stone Quotes

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• The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

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  Love, Romance, Stories

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• There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Book

  Irving Stone (1941). “Clarence Darrow for the defense”, Doubleday Books

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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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  Men, People, Generosity

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• Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

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  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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• How difficult it is to be simple.

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  Simple, Difficult

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• Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

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  Alphabet

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• His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

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  Mind, Lap, Soup

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• No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

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  Artist, Normal, Happens

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• I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

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  Book, Mental Illness, Cures

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• Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

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  Poison, Antidote

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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, Patterns, Conclusion

  Irving Stone (1984). “Lust for Life”, Plume

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• God did not create us to abandon us.

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  Abandon

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

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  Things In Life, Important, Drink

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

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  Inspirational, Love Is, People

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• A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

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  Men, Painting

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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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  People, Drug, Morality

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• You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

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  Important, Done, Enough

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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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  Flames, Waiting, Soul

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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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  Anger, Use, Fuel

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

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  Men, Creative, Force

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• He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

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  Love Life, Bread

  "Three Complete Novels".

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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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  Artist, Would Be, Miserable

  Irving Stone (1961). “the Agony and the Ecstasy”

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• There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

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  Evil, Action, Existence

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• Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

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  Art, Book, Art Is

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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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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  School, Thinking, Important

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