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Quotes from The Decline and Fall of the American Empire — Gore Vidal

1925–2012 United States

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Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)

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.

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)

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