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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
― Arthur Christopher Benson

“Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to shar life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love. ”
― Arthur Christopher Benson

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
― Arthur Christopher Benson

“A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise,
because he likes it; and that is probably the best reason that can
be given for the practice.”
― Arthur Christopher Benson, From a College Window

“The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.”
― A.C. Benson, Escape and Other Essays

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
― Arthur Christopher Benson

“And with them all things are well, for a man, too, may be born again, and without descending into the grave.”
― A.C. Benson

“You know that they ring the bell all night on the feast of All Souls?” “Yes,” said Roderick, “I have heard it ring.” “Well, on that night alone,” said the farmer, “they say that spirits have power upon men, and come abroad to do them hurt; and so they ring the bell, which the spirits cannot listen to...”
― A.C. Benson , The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of A. C. Benson: One Novel 'The Child of the Dawn, ' One Novelette 'The Uttermost Farthing' and Eight Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual

“In real life the adventures are scanty, and for most of us existence moves on in a commonplace and inconsequent way. Misunderstandings are not cleared up, complexities are not unravelled. I think it is time that”
― A.C. Benson, The Thread of Gold

“A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise, because he likes it; and that is probably the best reason that can be given for the practice.”
― Arthur Christopher Benson