“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.”
Gerald Brenan“In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.”
Gerald Brenan“Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.”
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“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”
Gerald Brenan“Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.”
Gerald Brenan