Gerald Brenan Quotes

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

Gerald Brenan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 7, 1894 - January 19, 1987

Topics

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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

John Bolton

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I'm pretty reclusive. I'm a homebody.

Max Minghella

PrettyHomebodyReclusive

It's all about letting the story take over.

Robert Stone

StoryOverTakeAboutLetting

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

Max Baucus

HealthCareAmericanRightEvery

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

Tommy Franks

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Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Rod Taylor

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As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Luis Figo

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My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.

Derek Walcott

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I remember being at Weight Watchers at, like, 11 years old and my mom just trying to figure it out for me.

Chrissy Metz

MeMomRememberTryingOldOut

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

Antony Beevor

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It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

Anthony Albanese

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It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

Audre Lorde

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