“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
— Gore Vidal
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“That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.”
— Gore Vidal
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“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
— Gore Vidal
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“A good deed never goes unpunished.”
— Gore Vidal
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“The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.”
— Gore Vidal
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“The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.”
— Gore Vidal
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“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”
— Gore Vidal
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“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.”
— Gore Vidal
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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
— Gore Vidal
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“We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”
— Gore Vidal
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“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”
— Gore Vidal
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