Harold Pinter Quotes and Sayings
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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I also found being called Sir rather silly. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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One's life has many compartments. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑
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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. Harold Pinter | Refcard PDF ↑