"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."
"Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition."
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Source: The End of Gore Vidal. Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.
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