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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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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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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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If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: I shall alter that when I have a little more time? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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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 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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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 war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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At moments we are all artists.
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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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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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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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