17 quotes by Harold Pinter

“Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.” — Harold Pinter

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“I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 d--n plays. Isn't that enough?” — Harold Pinter

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“The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.” — Harold Pinter

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“Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.” — Harold Pinter

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“All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.” — Harold Pinter

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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.” — Harold Pinter

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“I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?” — Harold Pinter

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“There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.” — Harold Pinter

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“Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.” — Harold Pinter

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“Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.” — Harold Pinter

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“I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.” — Harold Pinter

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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.” — Harold Pinter

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“If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.” — Harold Pinter

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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.” — Harold Pinter

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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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“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.” — Harold Pinter

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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.” — Harold Pinter

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