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Inspirational Quotes by Harold Pinter
- Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
- One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
- A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
- I also found being called Sir rather silly.
- 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…
- The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.
- It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
- Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
- 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 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…
- Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
- Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
- I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
- I can't really articulate what I feel,
- There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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