Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money. Gerald Brenan More Quotes by Gerald Brenan More Quotes From Gerald Brenan Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. Gerald Brenan circus cracks animal The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. Gerald Brenan literature age writing 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 special class people Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures. Gerald Brenan acquisition imitation time 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 love mean believe The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions. Gerald Brenan poetry race literature 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 broken-heart two people If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms. Gerald Brenan you love hands fall As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. Gerald Brenan older more get believe A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. Gerald Brenan happiest old living fool Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. Gerald Brenan more talent age death 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 think money love world Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. Gerald Brenan typewriter really someone given
