Gerald Brenan Quotes
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
Quotes to Explore
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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
Eddie Condon
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Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
D. Elton Trueblood
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New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
Takashi Murakami
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Find the beliefs that are strangling your feelings, challenge them for your sake as well as theirs, and see how it feels to love someone without a thought about the future, simply for who they are today.
Andrew Bernstein
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The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.
Barack Obama
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
William Congreve
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We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
Sarah J. Maas
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Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
