Gerald Brenan Quotes

Best Quotes by Gerald Brenan (Top 10)

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
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Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
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The cliche is dead poetry.
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
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The clichﾃδｩ is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichﾃδｩs, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
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