Harold Pinter Quotes About Literature
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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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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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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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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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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.
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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.
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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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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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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 true or false; it can be both true and false.
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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 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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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
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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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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
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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.
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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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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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