English - Novelist | May 27, 1867 - March 27, 1931
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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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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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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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
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The price of justice is eternal publicity.
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
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