“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
“I know the place
I know the place.
It is true.
Everything we do
Corrects the space
Between death and me
And you.”
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
“When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.”
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
“The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.”
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"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 (1930-2008)
"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
"It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis."
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”
― Harold Pinter (1930-2008)