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It is within the experience o...

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

You are not in charge of the ...

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

The real Tragedy is the trage...

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 full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

As a rule people don't collec...

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

The second suggestion is to t...

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Every scene, even the commone...

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; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Which of us is not saying to ...

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

All wrong doing is done in th...

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Only a very gifted mind could...

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Nearly all bookish people are...

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, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Concentrate on something usef...

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

In search of ideas I spent ye...

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 delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

I know people who read and re...

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.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

The pleasure of doing a thing...

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

The people who live in the pa...

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Worry is evidence of an ill-c...

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.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

The parents exist to teach th...

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

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Beware of undertaking too muc...

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

You can turn over a new leaf ...

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

It is well, when judging a fr...

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

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