"Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the……" — Harold Pinter
"Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself."
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Harold Pinter
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60 Quotes by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter has 60 quotes on this site.
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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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I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to…
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics…
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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about…
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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…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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