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Harold Pinter Quotes


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

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

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

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

One's life has many compartments.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

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 no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

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 the theatre.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

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 ever known.