Gerald Brenan Quotes
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~ Gerald Brenan Quote
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.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
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 Quote
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
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 Quote
The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying ourselves.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
