Gerald Brenan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
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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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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
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A bad memory is the mother of invention.
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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.