Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
age age-and-aging fatal good
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
english-writer talker whom
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
age death middle sudden wars
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
english-writer means
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
arms cannot english-writer fall holding love offensive wish
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
broken-heart two people
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
believe mean jealous
Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.
believe ideas people
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.
hurt men doe
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.
race literature language
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
class people special
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.
animal cracks circus
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
sympathy sorry people
The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.
happy-life giving generosity
As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.