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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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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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
