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Being a husband is a whole-time job.

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
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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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 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 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 parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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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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Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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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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