Gerald Brenan Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Linda Heavner Gerald received a silver medal for Fiction from FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association)”

“Keep in mind that it is one life we are given to live. One life in which we can create beautiful memories and dream, magnificent dreams. So create without boundaries, give life to your dreams; don't allow yourself to be dismayed by others or situations. Realize your own greatness, value yourself. Value the life given to you and hold fast to your own precious ideals and self worth.”

“There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".”

“In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.”

“He would never be any different and now Scarlett realize the truth and accepted it without emotion—that until he died Gerald would always be waiting for Ellen, always listening for her. Her was in some dim borderline country where time was standing still and Ellen was always in the next room. The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it has gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality. Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O'Hara had been played Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.”