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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. — Gerald Brenan

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

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

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. — Gerald Brenan

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why. — Robert Lembke

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. — Gerald Brenan

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is.
Ev Hillman — Stephen King

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. — Gerald Brenan

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else. — 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

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art. — Amanda Seyfried

A bad memory is the mother of invention. — Gerald Brenan

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity. — Goldie Hawn

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

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another. — Gerald Brenan

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. — Gerald Brenan

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

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

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. — Gerald Brenan

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own. — Gerald Brenan

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. — Gerald Brenan

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan

The cliche is dead poetry. — Gerald Brenan

I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising. — Phil Knight

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. — Martin Short

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione

The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids' linguistic abilities become — John Medina

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. — Gerald Brenan

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

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

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

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing. — Ted Kooser

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

The world begins again. Humanity owes its existence to a bit of cosmic whimsy. To a rock. It — Rick Yancey

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. — Gerald Brenan