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Quotes by Gerald Brenan

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
– Gerald Brenan
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
– Gerald Brenan
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
– Gerald Brenan
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
– Gerald Brenan
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
– Gerald Brenan
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
– Gerald Brenan
The cliche is dead poetry.
– Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
– Gerald Brenan
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
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
– Gerald Brenan
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
– Gerald Brenan