Harold Pinter Quotes

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• Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
• 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…
• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
• I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
• I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
• Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
• The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
• If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
• One's life has many compartments.
• 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.
• There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
• 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…
• I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
• 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…
• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
• 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…
• 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…

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