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Democracy

Harold Pinter
Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter’s take on democracy. Caution: this contains strong language!
13 - 10 - 2005

Democracy

There’s no escape.
The big pricks are out.
They’ll fuck everything in sight.
Watch your back.

February 2003

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