One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.
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 BrenanEveryone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald BrenanIt is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald BrenanWe 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 Brenan