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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
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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
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter
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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
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
Harold Pinter
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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
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
Harold Pinter
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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
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
Harold Pinter
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
Harold Pinter
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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
Harold Pinter
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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
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