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If you have only one of something you can't say it's the best of anything.
HAROLD PINTER, Old Times
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.
HAROLD PINTER, Party Time
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
I made a terrible mistake when I was young, I think, from which I've never really recovered. I wrote the word "pause" into my first play.
HAROLD PINTER, interview, Oct. 1989
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
HAROLD PINTER, Old Times
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?
HAROLD PINTER, Ashes to Ashes
I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.
HAROLD PINTER, The Dwarfs
I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.
HAROLD PINTER, introduction, Harold Pinter Complete Works: 2
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.
HAROLD PINTER, interview, Dec. 1971
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.
How can the unknown merit reverence?
HAROLD PINTER, The Homecoming
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way.
HAROLD PINTER, interview, Dec. 1971
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
I hate brandy ... it stinks of modern literature.
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.
HAROLD PINTER, introduction, Harold Pinter Complete Works: 2
I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
HAROLD PINTER, Party Time
I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.
HAROLD PINTER, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 2005
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