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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
Diarist
Film Writer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Magic
Hold
Take
Nerves
Jump

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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.
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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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