Harold Pinter Quotes

• It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

  Harold Pinter

• It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940’s, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

  Harold Pinter

• Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

  Harold Pinter

• 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

• 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

• I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

  Harold Pinter

• I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

  Harold Pinter

• 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

• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

  Harold Pinter

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

  Harold Pinter

• I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  Harold Pinter

• 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

• Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

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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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