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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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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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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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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 chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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 price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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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 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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The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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