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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Patriot, Succeed, 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
+ 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
+ The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Gay, Important, 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 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
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
