Harold Pinter Quotes

• There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

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• I no longer feel banished from myself.

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• The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

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• If only I could get down to Sidcup! I’ve been waiting for the weather to break. He’s got my papers, this man I left them with, it’s got it all down there, I could prove everything.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

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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.

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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.

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• The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

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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.

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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.

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• One’s life has many compartments.

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• One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

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• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

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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.

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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.

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• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

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Harold Pinter (43)

Birth:	10th October, 1930
Death:	24th December, 2008
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Harold Pinter was born in Hackney, London, England. He was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, poet, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. He studied at Hackney Downs School and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He wrote several plays include: The Room, The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, Betrayal, and No Man's Land. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant, The Go-Between, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Trial, and Sleuth. He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.

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