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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.