Harold Pinter's Quotes

Born: 1930-10-10
Profession: Dramatist
Nation: English
Biography of Harold Pinter
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.
Tags: Great, Second, WarIf Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
Tags: Court, Respect, TriedIt was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Tags: Difficult, Felt, GunsOccasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
Tags: Last, Love, WordsOne's life has many compartments.
Tags: LifeThe Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
Tags: Country, Thought, WorkThe past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
Tags: Past, Remember, YourselfThe Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.
Tags: Change, Room, WordMy 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.
Tags: Birthday, Party, SecondThere is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Tags: Absence, America, UnitedThere'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.
Tags: Life, Politics, TheatreI 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.
Tags: Bad, God, SexI never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Tags: Critical, Possessing, WiseThere are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Tags: Hard, Real, TrueI 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.
Tags: Away, Good, PoliticalThis particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Tags: Cancer, Die, SaidI 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.
Tags: Accept, Found, GovernmentClinton'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.
Tags: Hands, Smile, ViewGood writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
Tags: Him, Unique, UsedI mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Tags: Forget, Moving On, PastIt's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Tags: Easy, Propaganda, WorkOne way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Tags: Constant, Looking, SpeechI think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
Tags: Citizen, Country, ThinksIraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Tags: Attitude, Iraq, RestMost of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Tags: Government, Press, StatusThe crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
Tags: Constant, Nobody, TalksWhile The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
Tags: Nation, Powerful, WhileAll that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Tags: Happens, Human, UnlessI believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
Tags: Court, Criminal, Desired