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Gerald Brenan Quotes
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Type: Writer Quotes Category: English Writer Quotes Year of Birth: 1894 Year of Death: 1987 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Gerald Brenan Related Authors: Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin David Herbert Lawrence Charles Caleb Colton Joseph Addison Thomas Paine Quentin Crisp John le Carre |
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Gerald Brenan As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. Gerald Brenan Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Gerald Brenan If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. Gerald Brenan In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. Gerald Brenan 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. Gerald Brenan Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. Gerald Brenan Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. Gerald Brenan The cliche is dead poetry. Gerald Brenan Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. Gerald Brenan We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Gerald Brenan We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. Gerald Brenan Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. Gerald Brenan 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. Gerald Brenan |
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