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Gerald Brenan
English
Writer
About the author
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Death
#Age
#Talent
#Middle age
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Old
#Living
#Fool
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Being
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Love
#Brothers
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,
English
Writer
#People
#Ideas
#Values
#Importance
#Intellectuals
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Writer
The cliche is dead poetry.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Poetry
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,
English
Writer
#Love
#World
#Poor
#Money
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#People
#Leisure
#Ants
#Butterflies
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Fear
#Being
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,
English
Writer
#Hurt
#Man
#Business
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Fallibility
#Sense
#Wisdom
#Opinions
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan,
English
Writer
#Wife
#Marriage
#HusbClimate