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All Quotes by author - Harold Pinter

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

" Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? "

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

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

" Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches. "

" George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people. "

" Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? "

" I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it. "

" It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. "

" I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy. "

" One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. "

" Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man. "

" Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice. "

" Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement. "

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

" The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to. "

" The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. "

" There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society. "

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

" 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. "

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