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Arnold Bennett

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.


— Arnold Bennett


#accompanied #always #any #better #drawbacks

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.


— Arnold Bennett


#efficient #egotism #essential #interest #living

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.


— Arnold Bennett


#enough #hope #journalists #keep #know

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.


— Arnold Bennett


#anything #clever #does #far #like

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.


— Arnold Bennett


#ingenuity #little #little money #money #more

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.


— Arnold Bennett


#get #just #optimism #pessimism #used

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.


— Arnold Bennett


#being #exactly #great #great advantage #knows

The moment you're born you're done for.


— Arnold Bennett


#done #moment #you

The price of justice is eternal publicity.


— Arnold Bennett


#justice #price #publicity

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.


— Arnold Bennett


#first-rate #his #hurry #keeps #late






About Arnold Bennett

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Did you know about Arnold Bennett?

Bennett died of typhoid at his home in Baker Street London on 27 March 1931 after returning from a visit to France. After a visit to America in 1911 where he had been publicized and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since Dickens he returned to England where Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed as a masterpiece. As well as the novels much of Bennett's non-fiction work has stood the test of time.

He is best known as a novelist but he also worked in other fields such as journalism propaganda and film. Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer.

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