Democracy

Harold Pinter, 12 October 2005
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Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter’s take on democracy. Caution: this contains strong language!
About the author
Harold Pinter is the 2005 Nobel Prize winner for Literature. He is a British playwright, poet and polemicist. His website is at: www.haroldpinter.org.

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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