"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
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Source: The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago, (p. 47), 1989.
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