Harold Pinter Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Writing, Wish, Different

  Harold Pinter, Mel Gussow (1996). “Conversations with Pinter”, p.24, Grove Press

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• 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

  Writing, Usual, Want

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Plays: two”

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• In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

  Harold Pinter

  Believe, Voice, Cuba

  "Caribbean Cold War". Red Pepper Magazine, May 1996.

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• The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

  Harold Pinter

  Rooms, Stood Up

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

  Harold Pinter

  Country, Awards, Years

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• 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

  Cities, People, Heaven

  Harold Pinter (1999). “The Dwarfs: And Nine Revue Sketches”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

  Harold Pinter

  Believe, Criminals, Court

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

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Court, International

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