“ Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Gerald Brenan
“ In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. Gerald Brenan
“ It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs. Gerald Brenan
“ 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
“ Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. Gerald Brenan
