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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

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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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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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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At moments we are all artists.
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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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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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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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