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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

~Gerald Brenan

Topics: Climate Happy Happy Marriage Husband Landscape Marriage Provides Who Wife

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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

~Gerald Brenan

Topics: Ants Butterflies Closer Endure Few Few People Leisure Much People Than Very

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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

~Gerald Brenan

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The cliche is dead poetry.

~Gerald Brenan

Topics: Cliche Dead Poetry

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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

~Gerald Brenan

Topics: Believe Get Less More More And More Older Seem

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If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

~Gerald Brenan

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

~Gerald Brenan

Topics: Business Does Generally Hear Him Hurt Know Man You

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

~Gerald Brenan

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

~Gerald Brenan

Topics: Avoid Being Bore Everyone Oneself Someone Thing Unimportant

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

~Gerald Brenan

Topics: Age Death Does Even Middle Middle Age More Out Sudden Talent Than Wars

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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