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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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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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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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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
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