Gerald Brenan Quotes
13 Gerald Brenan quotes:
"I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists."
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Age And Aging Quotes
"What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?"
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American President Quotes
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
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English Writer Quotes
Leisure Quotes
"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."
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English Writer Quotes
"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
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English Writer Quotes
Opinions Quotes
"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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English Writer Quotes
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
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English Writer Quotes
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
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English Writer Quotes
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
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English Writer Quotes
"The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity."
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Gold Quotes
Awards Quotes
"The cliche is dead poetry."
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English Writer Quotes
Cliche Quotes
"In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape."
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English Writer Quotes
Climate Quotes
"The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions."
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Language Quotes
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