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