"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."

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Source : Arnold Bennett (2015). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding”, p.6, 谷月社

Arnold Bennett

#Littles Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Human Nature Quotes

“making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.”
“I like to be who I am.”
“Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.”
“The foreign audiences are somewhat surprised and happy to find an American film that asks questions about American culture. There's a certain kind of cultural imperialism that we practice. Our films penetrate every market in the world. I have seen and have had people reflect to me, maybe not in so many words or specifically, but I get the subtext of it - they're somewhat charmed and surprised and happy to see an American film reflect on our culture. Because they see other cultures reflect on our culture but they don't see US culture reflecting on itself in quite the same way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.”
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation
“We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.”
“Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying!”

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