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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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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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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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At moments we are all artists.
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Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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