Quotes by Gerald Brenan

Gerald Brenan

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Invention

Memories

Mother

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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.

Generosity

Giving

Happy Life

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Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Believe

Love

Mean

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Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Artist

People

World

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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

Acquisition

Imitation

Time

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

Boredom

Bores

Oneself

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

Anniversary

Husband

Wedding

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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.

Believe

Ideas

People

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

Attitude

Morning

Writing

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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Broken Heart

People

Two

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Artist

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Broken Heart

Business

Butterfly

Circus

Class

Cliche

Country

Cracks

Death

Generosity

Giving

Grief

Happiness

Happy

Happy Life

Harmony

Helping

Hurt

Husband

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Imitation

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Knowledge

Literature

Love

Mean

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Missing

Morning

Mother

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Opinion

Pages

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Poetry

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Quotes by Gerald Brenan

Gerald Brenan

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

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

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

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.

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

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

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