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Gerald Brenan was British writer and hispanist. Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain. Read more on Wikipedia →

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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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“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.”
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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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