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Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright, and critic, best known for his works depicting life in the Staffordshire Potteries. Many of his novels explored themes of social mobility and everyday life. He influenced English literary realism and left a lasting impact on 20th-century fiction. Here are 47 of his quotes:

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. (Arnold Bennett)
A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour. View quote
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The moment you're born you're done for. View quote
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. View quote
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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. View quote
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. View quote
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Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. View quote
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. View quote
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. View quote
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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. View quote
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The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time. (Arnold Bennett)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely. View quote
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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw. View quote
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her she knows by a process of the intellect but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot. View quote
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Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be). View quote
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Make love to every woman you meet if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment. View quote
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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. View quote
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Essential characteristic of the really great novelist a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. View quote
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public. (Arnold Bennett)
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time. View quote
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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: May 27, 1867
Died: March 27, 1931
Quotes count: 47
Wikipedia: Arnold Bennett

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