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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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