Gerald Brenan

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#climate #happy #happy marriage #husband #landscape

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

— Gerald Brenan

#miller #non-stop #really #someone #talker

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

#ideas #importance #intellectuals #more #other

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#fellow #fool #happiest #healthy #living

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#get #i #i do #less #more

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone

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

— Gerald Brenan

#brothers #cannot #fall #hands #holding

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

— Gerald Brenan

#death #does #even #middle #middle age

The cliche is dead poetry. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#dead #poetry

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

#important thing #know #love #means #money