One of my favourite playwrights has died... Harold Pinter finally succumbed to liver cancer...
Another Christmas Day loss...
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Some Pinter quotes:
— “I can sum up none of my plays . . . but my writing life has been, quite simply, one of relish, challenge and excitement”
— “Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living”
— “It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940s, but I felt I had to stick to my guns”
— “The crimes of the US throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless and fully documented but nobody talks about them”
— “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”
— “One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness”
— “I know little of women. But I’ve heard dread tales” Moonlight, 1993
— “Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself” Tea Party, 1964
— “I hate brandy . . . it stinks of modern literature.” Betrayal, 1978
— “I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs” Moonlight, 1993
— “I made a terrible mistake when I was young, I think, from which I’ve never really recovered. I wrote the word ‘pause’ into my first play” Interview, 1989
— “I don’t give a damn what other people think. It’s entirely their own business. I’m not writing for other people” Interview, 1971
— “I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way” 1971
— “I’ve never been able to write a happy play. [But] I’ve been able to enjoy a happy life” Interview, 2007