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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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At moments we are all artists.
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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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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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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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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