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39 quotes by Harold Pinter

Website www.haroldpinter.org Literature portal Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (/ˈpɪntər/; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His...
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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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... →

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

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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

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

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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 say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

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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 bad either.

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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.

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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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