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Offline MysteRy

~ Gerald Brenan Quotes ~
« on: August 17, 2014, 04:22:15 PM »
Gerald Brenan Quotes


A British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE (1894–1987) was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.

Here are some famous quotes by Gerald Brenan.




Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
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Re: ~ Gerald Brenan Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2014, 04:22:53 PM »
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
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Re: ~ Gerald Brenan Quotes ~
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2014, 04:23:29 PM »
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
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Re: ~ Gerald Brenan Quotes ~
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2014, 04:24:04 PM »
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.
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