What did Gore Vidal mean by: To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. - Gore Vidal Writer · USA Copy
+ One’s neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Enemy, Neighbor, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Business, Time Management, 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
+ I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Youth, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Country, Past, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Death, Dying, 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
+ Reality is something the human race doesn’t handle very well. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Race, Reality, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. - Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France