One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
—Harold Pinter
Topics: Speaking, Speakers
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
—Harold Pinter
Topics: Philosophers, Philosophy
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
—Harold Pinter
Topics: Writing, Writers, Authors & Writing
The general thrust these days is: Oh, come on, it’s all in the past, nobody’s interested any more, it didn’t work, everyone knows what the Americans are like, but stop being naive, this is the world, there’s nothing to be done about it and anyway fuck it, who cares? But let me put it this way-the dead are still looking at us, waiting for us to acknowledge our part in their murder.
—Harold Pinter
Topics: The Past
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