A WRITER'S WIT: GORE VIDAL

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
Author of ​Myra Breckinridge
​Born October 3, 1925

G. Vidal

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