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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.
- Harold Pinter
#Clean
#Hands
#Profound
#Smile
#View
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
- Harold Pinter
#Literature
#Love
#Me
#School
#Time
As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.
- Harold Pinter
#Beyond
#Far
#Funny
#Point
#Up
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
#Bad
#Cricket
#Earth
#God
#Sex
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- Harold Pinter
#Cover
#Looking
#Say
#Speech
#Way
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
- Harold Pinter
#Birthday
#Company
#Doing
#Dumb
#Time
No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
- Harold Pinter
#Alone
#Me
#Parents
#Teacher
#Want
I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
- Harold Pinter
#Believe
#Debate
#I Am
#I Believe
#War
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
- Harold Pinter
#I Think
#Itself
#NATO
#Think
#War
A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.
- Harold Pinter
#Excited
#Friends
#Go
#Me
#Watch
You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
- Harold Pinter
#America
#Good
#Hand
#Manipulation
#Power
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
- Harold Pinter
#Country
#He
#Responsibility
#Say
#Think
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
#Intelligence
#Myself
#Never
#Think
#Wise
Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
- Harold Pinter
#Challenge
#Excitement
#Life
#Writing
Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
- Harold Pinter
#I Am
#Man
#My Own
#Own
#Sweat
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
- Harold Pinter
#Analysis
#Mind
#Same
#Spring
#Take
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
- Harold Pinter
#Centre
#Maelstrom
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.
- Harold Pinter
#Betrayal
#Day
#People
#Uncomfortable
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
- Harold Pinter
#Imagine
#Past
#Remember
#You
#Yourself
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
- Harold Pinter
#Character
#Experience
#Information
#Past
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
- Harold Pinter
#Attitude
#Iraq
#Just
#Rest
#World
My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
- Harold Pinter
#Day
#Good
#Home
#Morning
#Night
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
- Harold Pinter
#Big
#Cricket
#Drama
#Happens
#Small
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
- Harold Pinter
#Dissent
#Easy
#Mocked
#Propaganda
#Work
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
#Between
#False
#Hard
#Real
#True
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
- Harold Pinter
#Earth
#Forget
#Live
#Mean
#Moving On
#Past
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
- Harold Pinter
#Communication
#Good
#Life
#Living
#Me
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
- Harold Pinter
#Birthday
#Critics
#Day
#Play
#Who
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
- Harold Pinter
#Drama
#Find
#Never
#Search
#Truth
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