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In writing and politicking, its best not to think about it, just d

In writing and politicking, its best not to think about it, just do it. – 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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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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