What did Gore Vidal mean by: True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don’t know quite as well as you know what you do know. - Gore Vidal Writer · USA Copy
+ People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Forgotten, Prohibition, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one’s family. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Cards, Fate, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Do nothing that is not natural – and ritual is natural – and all will be for the best. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Natural, Ritual, 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
+ 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
+ Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Fashion, Hair, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Good Life, Pain, Pleasure, 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’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
