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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Film Writer
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
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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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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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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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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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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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Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
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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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