What did Iain Banks mean by: Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot. - Iain Banks Author · Scotland Copy
+ Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Polite, Political, Wings, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Disagreement, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Reality, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Iain Banks, Book, Film, Usual, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ There’s an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Soup, Tears, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Achieve, Exercise, Skills, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Achieve, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Fun, Writing, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport. - Jeff Lindsay Author
They were snobs or idiots or both…yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. - Jennifer Egan Novelist · USA
