Harold Pinter Quotes
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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I believe that all men and women will be saved.
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I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.
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The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
