Arrangements Quote by Gerald Brenan

“Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.”

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“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”

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Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

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

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

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

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Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

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One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about…

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

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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has…

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A bad memory is the mother of invention.

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We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not…

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for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

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Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

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The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in.…

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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy,…

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One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater…

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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

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Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be…

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But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and…

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