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
+ There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Funny, Sex, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ a writer must always tell the truth (unless he’s a journalist) Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Journalist, Telling The Truth, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Grandchildren, Grandma, Grandmother, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Disaster, Minors, Reserves, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, End, Television, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Political, Presidential, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one’s friends must fail. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Failing, Successful, True Happiness, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ 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
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
