Arnold Bennett Quotes
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
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Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.
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I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.
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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.
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Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
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Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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