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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
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Film Writer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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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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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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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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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