Harold Pinter Quotes

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.
Harold Pinter

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.
Harold Pinter

True, Real, Hard

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

Wise, Critical, Possessing

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.
Harold Pinter

Government, Accept, Found

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
Harold Pinter

Work, Long, Short

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
Harold Pinter

Smile, Hands, View

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

Him, Used, Unique

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

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

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

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter

Life, Good, Writing

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

Country, Thinks, Citizen

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

Attitude, Rest, Iraq

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

Government, Status, Press

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

Nobody, Constant, Talks

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

Die, Said, Cancer

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Harold Pinter

Human, Happens, Unless

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
Harold Pinter

I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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Rather, Found, Silly

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
Harold Pinter

Court, Criminal, Desired

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.
Harold Pinter

Pain, Since, Cancer

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.
Harold Pinter

Good, Political, Away

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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Moving On, Live, Forget

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

Place, Speak, Dead

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
Harold Pinter

War, Criminal, Nato

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 10, 1930

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