GBGerald Brenan

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Gerald Brenan

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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

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02Undated

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

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03Undated

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

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04Undated

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

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05Undated

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

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06Undated

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

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