Arnold Bennett Quotes
Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).
Quotes to Explore
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).
