“In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.”
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
