Harold Pinter Short Quotes

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I have never been loved. From this I derive my strength.

Harold Pinter

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Harold Pinter

I saw Len Hutton in his prime,
Another time, another time.

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The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

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There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

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Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

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Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

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There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.

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I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.

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I said to this monk... I heard you got a stock of shoes here. Piss off, he said to me.

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The earth's about five million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

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I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

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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 don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

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Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one.

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Question: But what would you say your plays were about, Mr. Pinter?
Pinter: The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

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When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.

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I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

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You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but which remains forever, icy and silent.

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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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Now hear this. You are mountain people. You hear me? Your language is dead. It is forbidden. It is not permitted to speak your mountain language in this place.

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You're nothing else but a wild animal, when you come down to it. You're a barbarian. And to put the old tin lid on it, you stink from arse-hole to breakfast time.

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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 believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.

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If only I could get down to Sidcup! I've been waiting for the weather to break. He's got my papers, this man I left them with, it's got it all down there, I could prove everything.

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