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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
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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 people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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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 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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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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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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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