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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Harold Pinter

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Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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