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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.
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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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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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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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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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