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

 

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


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This quote is just one of 9 total Gerald Brenan quotes in our collection. Gerald Brenan is known for saying 'We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

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

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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? -Gerald Brenan
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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.

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

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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. -Gerald Brenan
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The cliche is dead poetry.

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