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The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored that is to say, he is not living.
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
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