What did Gore Vidal mean by: I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest. - Gore Vidal Writer · USA Copy
+ Once people get hung up on theology, they’ve lost sanity forever. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Sanity, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Gossip, Past, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Politics, Remember, United States, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Clever, Population, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Funny, Literature, Television, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Grief, Sex, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Human, Strange, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Interesting, Money, More Money, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
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
