Arnold Bennett Quotes

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• To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
• The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be…
• The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his…
• Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
• Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,…
• 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…
• It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the…
• 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…
• The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
• Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that…
• You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It…
• A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
• The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
• The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
• 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…
• Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
• Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment
• A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities - is an…
• Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment

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