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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
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Novelist
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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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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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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At moments we are all artists.
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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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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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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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