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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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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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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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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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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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 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 price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
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