Harold Pinter Quotes - Page 3

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• It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

  Harold Pinter

  Mirrors, Difficult, Contempt

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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

  Unique, Men, Thinking

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• There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

  Harold Pinter

  "Harold Pinter : Nobel Laureate". Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2005.

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• Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

  Harold Pinter

  Years, Donkey, Drains

  Harold Pinter (1994). “Moonlight”, p.5, Grove Press

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• I no longer feel banished from myself.

  Harold Pinter

  Feels

  1995 On completing his first full-length play in17 years. In Newsweek,18 Sep.

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• I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

  Harold Pinter

  Home, Office, Use

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Harold Pinter: Plays 4: Betrayal; Monologue; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Family Voices; A Kind of Alaska; Victoria Station; Precisely; The New World Order; Party Time; Moonlight: Ashes to Ashes; Celebration; Umbrellas; God's District; Apart from That”, p.253, Faber & Faber

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• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Maelstrom, Centre

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. December 22, 2002.

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• I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

  Harold Pinter

  Believe, America, World

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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.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Political, Intellectual

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

  Harold Pinter

  Funny, Humor, Cocktails

  Quoted in J. Russell Taylor, Anger and After (1962)

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• Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

  Harold Pinter

  Men, He Man

  Harold Pinter (1969). “Tea Party and the Basement: Two Plays”, p.14, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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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

  Respect, Mean, Acknowledge

  Harold Pinter (1993). “Party Time ; And, The New World Order: Two Plays”, p.28, Grove Press

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• I also found being called Sir rather silly.

  Harold Pinter

  Stupid, Silly, Literature

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

  Harold Pinter

  Class, Aristocracy, Want

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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.

  Harold Pinter

  Years, Doe, Doing Me

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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

  Harold Pinter

  Light, Literature, Appreciated

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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.

  Harold Pinter

  Pain, Cancer, Arses

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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

  Harold Pinter

  Mean, Long, Pieces

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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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.

  Harold Pinter

  Relationship, Knights, Government

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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.

  Harold Pinter

  Gun, Sticks, Difficult

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

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  Literature, Speak, Ought

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• I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

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  Saws, Prime, Another Time

  Harold Pinter (1991). “Collected Poems and Prose”, p.51, Grove Press

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• 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, Party, Play

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• I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Wish, Different

  Harold Pinter, Mel Gussow (1996). “Conversations with Pinter”, p.24, Grove Press

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• I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Usual, Want

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Plays: two”

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