Harold Pinter Quotes

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

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• I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

  

  Harold Pinter
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