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Irving Stone

Irving Stone

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Educated At University Of California, Berkeley, University Of Southern California

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Novelist, Biographer, Screenwriter, Writer

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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.

— Irving Stone, The Agony and The Ecstasy

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

— Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

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

— Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

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

— Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

— Albert Einstein, Einstein on Race and Racism

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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I don’t know how to explain to someone why they should care about other people.

— Kayla Chadwick, I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People

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It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

— Emily Haines, Interview: Emily Haines

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If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge.

— Junot Dìaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams

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Start by looking for what is valid in every human being.

— Albert Camus, Notebooks

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Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy. It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.

— Jeff Buckley, A Pure Drop' The Life Of Jeff Buckley

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I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

— Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

— Pema Chodron, Banish Your Inner Critic: Silence the Voice of Self-Doubt to Unleash Your Creativity and Do Your Best Work

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Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

— Carl Rogers, What Is Person-Centred Counselling?

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I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)

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Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.

— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays

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Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking.

— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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I don’t think I do understand people very well. I only know whether I like — or dislike — them.

— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

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You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…

— Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

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So regardless of the station we occupy; we have to try harder; to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own.

— Barack Obama, Read the full transcript of President Obama's farewell speech

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