Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist.
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“Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like”
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.”
“You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.”
“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.”
“You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.”
“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
Contributed by: Andy James