![]() One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work – which I thought was okay. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them. The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. A thing is not necessarily either true or false it can be both true and false. There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America. There’s a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays. I don’t think there’s been any writer like Samuel Beckett. I also found being called Sir rather silly. I view these guises with profound contempt. I was so struck by this statement.īeckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.Ĭlinton’s hands remain incredibly clean, don’t they, and Tony Blair’s smile remains as wide as ever. This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.Īpart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.Ī short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.Īll that happens is that the destruction of human beings – unless they’re Americans – is called collateral damage. Since I’ve come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse. Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. I don’t intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. There’s a relationship to government about knights. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn’t possibly accept. I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940’s, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. Harold Pinter Read more quotes from these Nobel Laureates in Literature: Doris Lessing I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks. I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth – certainly greater than sex, although sex isn’t too bad either. I mean, don’t forget the earth’s about five thousand million years old, at least. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.I never think of myself as wise. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. With acting, I've got a character to inhabit.
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