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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

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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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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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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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 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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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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 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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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