We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
Gerald BrenanWhen I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
Gerald BrenanPoets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
Gerald Brenan