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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.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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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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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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