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Literature's always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people think that Cabinet ministers are educated.

Arnold Bennett

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.

Arnold Bennett

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

Arnold Bennett

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight…. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett

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Born: May 27, 1867

Died: March 27, 1931 (aged 63)

Bio: Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.

Known for:

The Old Wives' Tale (1908)
Anna of the Five Towns (1902)
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1908)
Hilda Lessways (1911)
Riceyman Steps (1923)

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