"One way of looking at speech is to……" — Harold Pinter
"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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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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Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
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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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More Constant Quotes
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
— Lynda Barry
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in…
— David Bohm
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
— Richard Brautigan
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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
— Joyce Brothers
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That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
— Luke Bryan
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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