If egotism means a terrific interest in ones self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. – Arnold Bennett
Journalists say a thing that they know isnt true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. – 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. – Arnold Bennett
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley