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The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

Harold Pinter

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Harold Pinter
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 10
Died: 2008
Died: December 24
Actor
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Film Director
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London
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Weasel
Weasels
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Cabinets
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I thought the plays would speak for themselves. But they didn't.
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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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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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There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
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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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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.
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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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I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.
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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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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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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
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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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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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Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
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I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.
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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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