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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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Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
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I no longer feel banished from myself.
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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 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.
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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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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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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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