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Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
Harold Pinter
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Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
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How can the unknown merit reverence?
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I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
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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 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.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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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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Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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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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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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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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No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
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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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There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. 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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