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" I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. "

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" In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. "

" One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. "

" It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. "

" I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. "

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" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

" When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees. "

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" If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. "

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" A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times. "

" Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. "

" I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. "

" I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely. "

" I think journalism is important. "

" I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. "

" To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction. "

" I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play. "

" Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. "

" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "

" I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. "

" Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? "

" There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. "

" I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor. "

" I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm. "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "