Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
arms cannot english-writer fall holding love offensive wish
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
cliche
The cliche is dead poetry.
happy-life giving generosity
As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.
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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
happy country art
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom....
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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
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Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.