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Harold Pinter Quotes

English - Dramatist | October 10, 1930 -

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.

Good Intelligence Political Go Boy

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.

Relationship Government Accept Offer

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Myself Intelligence Wise Think Never

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Speak Place Dead Over Because About

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.

Great War World London Up Deal

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

Respect Court He Tried International

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Government Status Quo Status Press

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.

Birthday Day Party Play Critics Who

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

Love Words Me Doing Page Years

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

Work Thought Award Country Okay

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

Die Said Cancer Forgotten Statement

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

Attitude World Rest Just Symbol

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