“La vérité au théâtre est à jamais insaisissable.”
Truth in drama is forever elusive.
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Discours de réception du prix Nobel de littérature le [7, décembre, 2005]
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The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by the characters. The characters resist him, they are not easy to live with, they are impossible to define. You certainly can't dictate to them.
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Discours de réception du prix Nobel de littérature le [7, décembre, 2005]
When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror - for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
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Discours de réception du prix Nobel de littérature le [7, décembre, 2005]
The search for the truth can never stop. It cannot be adjourned, it cannot be postponed. It has to be faced, right there, on the spot.
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Discours de réception du prix Nobel de littérature le [7, décembre, 2005]
Harold Pinter: Citations en anglais
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
Writing for the Theatre (1962)
Source: Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Contexte: The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. (14)
“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
Harold Pinter
Old Times
Source: Old Times
On the arrest of Slobodan Milošević, as quoted by Fiachra Gibbons, in "Free Milosevic, says Pinter" http://www.guardian.co.uk/serbia/article/0,2479,527545,00.html, The Guardian (26 July 2001).
Harold Pinter, et al. "Letters: Human Rights and Cuba" http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1445897,00.html, The Guardian (26 Mar. 2005). Pinter was a signatory.
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
“I saw Len Hutton in his prime,
Another time, another time.”
Poem A Cricket Poem, quoted in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2009, p. 1604
"Caribbean Cold War" http://www.redpepper.org.uk/latin/x-may96-pinter.htm, Red Pepper (May 1996).
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Writing for the Theatre (1962)
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
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)
Referring to the 9/11 attacks, in "The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/12/11/do1101.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2002/12/11/ixopinion.html, The Telegraph (12 November 2002), published version of speech made upon accepting an honorary doctorate from University of Turin in 2002.
Speech at the National Theatre in London made on 10 June 2003, as quoted by Angelique Chrisafis and Imogen Tilden, in "Pinter Blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair" http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,975050,00.html, The Guardian (11 June 2003).
Quoted in an interview http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/politics_america.shtml, conducted by Andrew Graham-Yooll, South Magazine (May 1988)
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Writing for the Theatre (1962)
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
