Harold Pinter Quotes

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Harold Pinter

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : October 10, 1930

One's life has many compartments.

Harold Pinter

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter

I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

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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, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

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

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I find the whole Blairish idea more and more repugnant every day. 'New Labour': the term itself is so trashy. Kind of ersatz.

Harold Pinter

Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.

Harold Pinter

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Harold Pinter

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

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

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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 don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

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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 used to send him my plays.

Harold Pinter

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

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I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

Harold Pinter

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

Harold Pinter