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Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.

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

Age, Death, Middle, War, Wars

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

Appearing, Bad Qualities, Fear, Naive, Quality, Ridiculous

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Age, Literature, Please, Test, Writing

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

Avoid, Bore, Boredom, Bores, Oneself, Thing

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Age, Aging, Earned, Giving, Takes

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

Absence, Deaths, Grief, Lives, Missing

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

Country, Curiosity, Happiness, Happy, People, Suffer

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Artist, People, World, Writer

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.

Business, Hear, Hurt, Know, Knowledge

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Morning, Attitude, Writing, Amateurs, Down, Write

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

Anniversary, Happy, Husband, Landscape, Wedding

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Animal, Circus, Cracks, Recalcitrant, Vain

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Butterfly, Endure, Leisure, People, Relaxation

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

Death, Deaths, Die, Friends, Hurt, Should

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

Fallibility, Opinion, Opinions, Views, Wisdom

The cliche is dead poetry.

Cliche, Dead, Poetry

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Believe, Jealous, Love, Persons

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.

Danger, Literature, Poetry, Race

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Arrangement, Broken Heart, Marriage, People, Two, Worst

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

Badly, Pages, Reads, Somewhere Else, Write, Writing