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

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Gerald Brenan

#Animal Quotes #Cracks Quotes #Circus Quotes

“Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.”
“I've only played for Watford, so I'm a one-man club.”
“Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”
“You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.”
“Soon madness has worn you down. Itâ€™s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says youâ€™re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.”
“The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.”
“I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.”
“And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.”

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