Collected Meditations
Showing 11 quotesI 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.— Harold Pinter
topics:
War
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.— Harold Pinter
topics:
Truth
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.— Harold Pinter
topics:
Smile
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.— Harold Pinter
topics:
Relationship
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?— Harold Pinter
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.— Harold Pinter
topics:
Intelligence
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.— Harold Pinter
topics:
Birthday