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Letter "G" » Gerald Brenan Quotes
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«In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.»
Author: Gerald Brenan
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climate
«We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.»
«We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them»
«The cliche is dead poetry.»
«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.»
«What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?»
Author: Gerald Brenan
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Boredom
«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.»
«I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.»
Author: Gerald Brenan
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Age
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age of the, An Age, culotte, revolutionist, revolutionists, SANS, thirty-three, Three Ages
«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.»
Author: Gerald Brenan
«Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.»
Author: Gerald Brenan
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