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1. "Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this."He turns out the light.BLACKOUT" ~ Harold Pinter
2. "You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent." ~ Harold Pinter
3. "As it is?" ~ Harold Pinter
4. "I know the place.It is true.Everything we doCorrects the spaceBetween death and meAnd you." ~ Harold Pinter
5. "I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate." ~ Harold Pinter
6. "There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false." ~ Harold Pinter
7. "This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement." ~ Harold Pinter
8. "I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?" ~ Harold Pinter
9. "The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them." ~ Harold Pinter
10. "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
11. "It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked." ~ Harold Pinter
12. "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." ~ Harold Pinter
13. "A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work." ~ Harold Pinter
14. "Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt." ~ Harold Pinter
15. "One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness." ~ Harold Pinter
16. "I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse." ~ Harold Pinter
17. "I think that NATO is itself a war criminal." ~ Harold Pinter
18. "I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature." ~ Harold Pinter
19. "I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility." ~ Harold Pinter
20. "You wouldn't understand my works. You wouldn't have the faintest idea of what they were about. You wouldn't appreciate the points of reference. You're way behind. All of you. There's no point in sending you my works. You'd be lost. It's nothing to do with a question of intelligence. It's a way of being able to look at the world. It's a question of how far you can operate on things and not in things. I mean it's a question of your capacity to ally the two, to relate the two, to balance the two. To see, to be able to see! I'm the one who can see. That's why I can write my critical works. Might do you good...have a look at them...see how certain people can view...things...how certain people can maintain...intellectual equilibrium. Intellectual equilibrium. You're just objects. You just...move about. I can observe it. I can see what you do. It's the same as I do. But you're lost in it. You won't get me being...I won't be lost in it." ~ Harold Pinter
21. "JERRY: Look at the way you're looking at me. I can't wait for you. I'm bowled over, I'm totally knocked out, you dazzle me, you jewel, my jewel, I can't ever sleep again, no, listen, it's the truth, I won't walk, I'll be a cripple, I'll descend, I'll diminish, into total paralysis, my life is in your hands, that's what you're banishing me to, a state of catatonia, do you know the state of catatonia? do you? do you? the state of...where the reigning prince is the prince of emptiness, the prince of absence, the prince of desolation. I love you.EMMA: My husband is at the other side of that door.JERRY: Everyone knows. The world knows. It knows. But they'll never know, they'll never know, they're in a different world. I adore you. I'm madly in love with you. I can't believe that what anyone is at this moment saying has ever happened has ever happened. Nothing has ever happened. Nothing. Your eyes kill me. I'm lost. You're wonderful." ~ Harold Pinter
22. "I can't really articulate what I feel," ~ Harold Pinter
23. "EMMA: We're lovers.ROBERT: Ah, yes. I thought it might be something like that. Something along those lines.EMMA: When?ROBERT: What?EMMA: When did you think?ROBERT: Yesterday. Only yesterday. When I saw his handwriting on the letter. Before yesterday I was quite ignorant.EMMA: Ah. (pause) I'm sorry.ROBERT: Sorry? (silence) How long?EMMA: Some time.ROBERT: Yes, but how long exactly?EMMA: Five years.ROBERT: Five years?" ~ Harold Pinter
24. "What sound was that?I turn away, into the shaking room.What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this maze of light it leaves us in? What is this stance we take, To turn away and then turn back? What did we hear?It was the breath we took when we first met.Listen. It is here." ~ Harold Pinter

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Let stuff simply unfold, for once in your life, without spinning all those hopeful romantic fantasies. The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you'll have to actually live — no evers or afters required."
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