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“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”

Harold Pinter Old Times

Source: Old Times

“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.”

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Writing for the Theatre (1962)

“So often, below the word spoken, is the thing known and unspoken. My characters tell me so much and no more, with reference to their experience, their aspirations, their motives, their history. Between my lack of biographical data about them and the ambiguity of what they say lies a territory which is not only worthy of exploration but which it is compulsory to explore.”

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Writing for the Theatre (1962)

“But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.”

Art, Truth & Politics (2005)

“I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.”

Pinter on Pinter in The Observer (1980)