Arnold Bennett Quotes - Page 4

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• To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

  Arnold Bennett

  Faith, Mind, Mystical

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• You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
  producing a confused agreeable mass
  of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

  Arnold Bennett

  Confused, Thinking, Sound

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• The moment you're born you're done for.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving, Done, Birth

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• 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

  Reading, People, Theatre

  Arnold Bennett (1974). “Arnold Bennett: the Evening standard years: "Books and persons" 1926-1931”, Shoe String Pr Inc

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• Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

  Arnold Bennett

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.

  Arnold Bennett

  Life, Light, Intellectual

  Arnold Bennett (1975). “Literary Taste: how to Form it: With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature”, Ayer Company Pub

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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.

  Arnold Bennett

  Sleep, Men, Typical

  Arnold Bennett (2009). “How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

  Arnold Bennett

  Life, Mean, Heaven

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Mental Efficiency: And Other Hints to Men and Women - Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

  Arnold Bennett

  Faithful, Mars, Reputation

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• I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving, Evolution, Schemes

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• If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
  if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving Up, Lying, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Way, Needs

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• Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.

  Arnold Bennett

  Heart, Blessing, May

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• The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

  Arnold Bennett

  War, Years, People

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• 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 a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

  Arnold Bennett

  Heart, Cost, Waste

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• Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

  Arnold Bennett

  Washington Monument, Saws, Monument

  Arnold Bennett (1935). “The journal of Arnold Bennett”, Viking Press

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• You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

  Arnold Bennett

  Ideas, Firsts, Bricks

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.10463, Delphi Classics

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• I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

  Arnold Bennett

  Enemy, Friends And Enemies, Poetry Is

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.49, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

  Arnold Bennett

  Men, Doors, Bored

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mother, Sex, Joy

  Arnold Bennett (1935). “The journal of Arnold Bennett”, Viking Press

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• Being a husband is a whole-time job.

  Arnold Bennett

  Jobs, Husband, Whole

  'The Title' (1918) act 1

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• 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 one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

  Arnold Bennett

  Long, Literature, World

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• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reality, Heaven, Secret

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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