"I don't read my reviews, I measure them."

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Source : "The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett - an extraordinary story of ordinary life" by Charlotte Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2016.

Arnold Bennett

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“Sometimes, I like to imagine the perfect reader - the reader who not just understands what I am about, but soaks up every word as if it were written for them. I have been fortunate in that I have got to meet such readers now and again.”
“I'm a role model for lots of young girls.”
“Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.”

Source : Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau
“I stand before you today heart broken, I know history and I love this country ...God blessed this country and it took sacrifice because even though they were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that's an inheritance. And if you are not willing to fight for you inheritance, even when you leave your children, if they won't fight for it, they don't keep it. Mean greedy evil people will take it away.”
“The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.”
“It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!”
“To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books
“If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.”

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