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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
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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 war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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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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Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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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 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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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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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 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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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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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