Gerald Brenan Quotes
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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.
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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.
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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.
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New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
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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.
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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.
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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Our jovial star reigned at his birth.
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Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
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We want to play a physical game and impose our will on people.
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Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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Speculation regarding a ECB rate hike is likely to start building further, especially coming on top of the more hawkish comments we have been seeing from the ECB officials, so that will be euro supportive.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
