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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Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
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Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
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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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Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
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I don't want my wife to sleep with anyone but me, and I want to give her the same respect.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
