Gerald Brenan Quotes

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

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

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? - Gerald Brenan

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

The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions. - Gerald Brenan

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. - 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

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