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— Gore Vidal"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action."
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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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