Gerald Brenan Quotes

• Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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• The cliche is dead poetry.

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• Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

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

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

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• 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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• Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

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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.

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• I am thirty-three – the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

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Gerald Brenan (16)

Birth:	7th April, 1894
Death:	19th January, 1987
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Historian

About

Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan was born in Sliema, Malta. He was a British author and historian who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada. He was awarded a CBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List in 1982. He was educated at Radley, a boarding school in England. He wrote several books include: The face of Spain, The Literature of the Spanish People, A Life of One's Own, and Thoughts in a dry season.

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