Gerald Brenan Quotes
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I'm no producer's kid.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
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We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
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I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.
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I would like to know how it feels for my desperation to get louder.
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I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
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If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.
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Old age is the harbor of all ills.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
