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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Universe

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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 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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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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