"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
"By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success"
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Source: Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage
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