3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett 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.
3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett 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.
3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett 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.
3 December 2020 Arnold Bennett 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.
