Arnold Bennett Quotes

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• A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
• To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
• Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
• Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
• Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle,…
• Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
• No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
• Most people sleep themselves stupid.
• Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
• I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
• There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
• You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
• Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
• Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her;…
• Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
• If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take…
• 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…
• If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
• In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and…
• At moments we are all artists.

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