What did Christopher Hitchens mean by: One can’t indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself. - Christopher Hitchens Author · England Copy
+ What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Ideas, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Remember, Sin, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Believe, Fool, President, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can’t. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Apologizing, Forget, Writing, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Chiefs, Consolation, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Accomplish, Character, Moral, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Loneliness, Self, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
