Harold Pinter Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Harold Pinter quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased dramatist born on Oct 10, 1930). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 39 we have for him.

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.”

“I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?”

“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”

“The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.”

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

“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.”