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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We're not a democracy.
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It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
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.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
Gore Vidal
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
Gore Vidal
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