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Enoch Arnold Bennett

Geburtstag: 27. Mai 1867
Todesdatum: 27. März 1931

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Arnold Bennett war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Bennett ist vor allem bekannt als Verfasser der realistischen Romane und Kurzgeschichten um die „Five Towns“, einer imaginären Gegend im Norden Englands. Dazu gehören Geschichten aus Fünf Städten, The Old Wives’ Tale und die Trilogie Clayhanger. Zu seiner Zeit war er als Kritiker und Essayist von großem Einfluss.

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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.“

— Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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„A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.“

— Arnold Bennett, The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts
Act I

„The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.“

— Arnold Bennett

„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, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

„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).“

— Arnold Bennett
Chapter 8.

„The price of justice is eternal publicity.“

— Arnold Bennett
Things That Have Interested Me, 2nd series (1923), "Secret Trials"

„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
Act II

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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.“

— Arnold Bennett
The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)

„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.“

— Arnold Bennett
Chapter 12.

„Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.“

— Arnold Bennett
Act I

„And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.“

— Arnold Bennett
Chapter 12.

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