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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter

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Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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London
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I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
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Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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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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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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While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
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I no longer feel banished from myself.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
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When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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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.
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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.
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The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
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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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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
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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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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
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