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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
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Film Writer
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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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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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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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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.
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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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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her she knows by a process of the intellect but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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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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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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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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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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