Gerald Brenan

Poets and painters...

Poets and painters...

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the...

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We are closer...

We are closer...

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

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Intellectuals are people...

Intellectuals are people...

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas...

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Middle age snuffs...

Middle age snuffs...

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

Source: In...

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Those who have...

Those who have...

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

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Wisdom is keeping...

Wisdom is keeping...

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

Source: In...

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Everyone is a...

Everyone is a...

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

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The cliche is...

The cliche is...

The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English...

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Everyone alters and...

Everyone alters and...

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else...

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Old age takes...

Old age takes...

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

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