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> [Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/marriage-is-an-arrangement-by-which-two-people-start-by-getting-the/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

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## More by Gerald Brenan

> [“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/it-is-by-sitting-down-to-write-every-morning-that-one-becomes-a-writer/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/every-writer-and-artist-wonders-what-in-the-world-people-of-other/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/words-are-as-recalcitrant-as-circus-animals-and-the-unskilled-trainer/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-are-closer-to-the-ants-than-to-the-butterflies-very-few-people-can/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/in-a-happy-marriage-it-is-the-wife-who-provides-the-climate-the/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/miller-is-not-really-a-writer-but-a-non-stop-talker-to-whom-someone/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/one-road-to-happiness-is-to-cultivate-curiosity-about-everything-not/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/old-age-takes-away-from-us-what-we-have-inherited-and-gives-us-what/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/when-i-write-a-page-that-reads-badly-i-know-that-it-is-myself-who-has/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [A bad memory is the mother of invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/a-bad-memory-is-the-mother-of-invention/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-should-all-live-as-if-we-were-never-going-to-die-for-it-is-the/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-soon-cease-to-feel-the-grief-at-the-deaths-of-our-friends-yet-we/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/we-confess-our-bad-qualities-to-others-out-of-fear-of-appearing-naive/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/wisdom-is-keeping-a-sense-of-fallibility-of-all-our-views-and-opinions/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

> [One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-brenan/one-of-the-marks-of-a-great-poet-is-that-he-creates-his-own-family-of/)

[Gerald Brenan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-brenan/)

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