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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
Attribution: Gore Vidal (b. 1925), U.S. novelist, critic. “The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas,” Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 (1987).

Categories: Critic, Language

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