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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
— Harold Pinter
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.
— Harold Pinter
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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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
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
— Harold Pinter
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 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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The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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How can the unknown merit reverence?
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I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
— Harold Pinter
I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.
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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
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I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
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I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
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I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.
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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 very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
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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.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act ofblatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute
contempt for the concept of international law. — Harold Pinter
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.
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I can't really articulate what I feel,
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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 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.
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Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
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Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
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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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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.
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I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.
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You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
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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 no longer feel banished from myself.
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One's life has many compartments.
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When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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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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There are places in my heart ... where no living soul ... has ... or can ever ... trespass.
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