"Being different is fitting in...just like pieces to a puzzle."

I live to become, I become to excel, I excel to be the legacy that will echo my presence in my absence.

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

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.

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.

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.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands. I cannot too strongly insist on this.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

You can only 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.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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

Quotes by Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

Written By Arnold Bennett

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