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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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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.

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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.

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

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I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

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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.

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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 10th, 1930

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