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Film writer

Arnold Bennett was a British writer known for his film scripts, playing a significant role in the development of the film industry in the early 20th century.

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Famous Arnold Bennett Quotes

“At moments we are all artists.”

Moments Artist

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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.”

Soul Sometimes Matter Moments Facts Artist Brain Creativity Insight Granted Flash Transient

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“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”

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Author: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; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.”

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

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Author:Arnold Bennett