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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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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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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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At moments we are all artists.
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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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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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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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