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1. "The chief beauty about timeis 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 misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose." ~ Arnold Bennett
2. "You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agreeable massof sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details." ~ Arnold Bennett
3. "Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, "I've had enough of this." ~ Arnold Bennett
4. "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
5. "The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour." ~ Arnold Bennett
6. "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
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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
10. "Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate." ~ Arnold Bennett
11. "Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to do murder for their sacred cause." ~ Arnold Bennett
12. "...a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be made to accord with principles by means of daily examination, reflection, and resolution." ~ Arnold Bennett
13. "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
14. "The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that." ~ Arnold Bennett
15. "For remark! No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. Talk about an ideal democracy! In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even an extra hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. No mysterious power will say:—"This man is a fool, if not a knave. He does not deserve time; he shall" ~ Arnold Bennett
16. "waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you. You cannot waste the next hour; it is kept for you. I said the affair was a miracle." ~ Arnold Bennett
17. "Nothing is humdrum." ~ Arnold Bennett
18. "There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner." ~ Arnold Bennett
19. "Man, know thyself. I say it out loud. The phrase is one of those phrases with which everyone is familiar, of which everyone acknowledges the value, and which only the most sagacious put into practice. I don't know why." ~ Arnold Bennett
20. "Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the highest form of literature. It yields the highest form of pleasure, and teaches the highest form of wisdom. In a word, there is nothing to compare with it. I say this with sad consciousness of the fact that the majority of people do not read poetry." ~ Arnold Bennett
21. "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
22. "chief beauty about the constant supply of 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 unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career." ~ Arnold Bennett
23. "The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you." ~ Arnold Bennett
24. "The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall into gentle ecstasies over the work of artists less sensitive than himself." ~ Arnold Bennett
25. "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." ~ Arnold Bennett
26. "I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything." ~ Arnold Bennett
27. "You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul." ~ Arnold Bennett
28. "France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood." ~ Arnold Bennett
29. "A good novel rushes you forward like a skiff down a stream, and you arrive at the end, perhaps breathless, but unexhausted" ~ Arnold Bennett
30. "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
31. "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." ~ Arnold Bennett
32. "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." ~ Arnold Bennett
33. "Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life." ~ Arnold Bennett
34. "We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful." ~ Arnold Bennett
35. "Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it." ~ Arnold Bennett
36. "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top." ~ Arnold Bennett
37. "A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it." ~ Arnold Bennett
38. "Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like." ~ Arnold Bennett
39. "Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world." ~ Arnold Bennett
40. "We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is." ~ Arnold Bennett
41. "A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected." ~ Arnold Bennett
42. "Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true." ~ Arnold Bennett
43. "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
44. "Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism." ~ Arnold Bennett
45. "The moment you're born you're done for." ~ Arnold Bennett
46. "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
47. "If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living." ~ Arnold Bennett
48. "Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity." ~ Arnold Bennett
49. "The price of justice is eternal publicity." ~ Arnold Bennett
50. "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." ~ Arnold Bennett
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