What did John Wyndham mean by: Some quotations,” said Zellaby, “are greatly improved by lack of context. - John Wyndham Writer Copy
+ Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool’s vote is equal to a sensible man’s? Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wyndham, Democracy, Fool, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
+ Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wyndham, Existence, Treasure, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
+ Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Wyndham, Fuel, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
+ If you run away from a thing just because you don’t like it, you don’t like what you find either. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wyndham, Running, Running Away, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
+ And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wyndham, Echoes, Past, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
+ It’s humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it’s still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Wyndham, Dependent, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
+ …after all, what is a planet but an island in space? Feraz Zeid, June 2, 2023December 12, 2023, John Wyndham, Islands, Planets, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
+ Why should I? I’ve done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed – I am only beaten Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Wyndham, Ashamed, 0 - John Wyndham Writer
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
