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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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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
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Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.
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I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
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How can the unknown merit reverence?
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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 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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I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.
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I no longer feel banished from myself.
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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'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.
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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.
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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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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 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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