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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.
Harold Pinter
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Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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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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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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I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
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I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
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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 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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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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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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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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Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
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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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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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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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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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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 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 mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
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I no longer feel banished from myself.
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