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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

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About Gerald Brenan, CBE

Gerald Brenan, CBE

Gerald Brenan, CBE

Gerald Brenan, CBE (1894 - 1987) was a British writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village . He was awarded a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in Spain.

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