What did Gore Vidal mean by: Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. Gore Vidal Writer · USA Copy
Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Communication, Influence, Perception, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
One’s neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Conflict, Distrust, Human nature, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Gossip, History, Truth, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Democracy, Expression, Freedom, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Personality, Society, Wealth, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Life, Pain, Pleasure, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don’t know quite as well as you know what you do know. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Humility, Knowledge, Self-awareness, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
Reality is something the human race doesn’t handle very well. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gore Vidal, Human nature, Perception, Reality, 0 Gore Vidal Writer · USA
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
