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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

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
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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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At moments we are all artists.
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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 well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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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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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 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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
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