Harold Pinter citáty
Harold Pinter
Datum narození: 10. říjen 1930
Datum úmrtí: 24. prosinec 2008
Harold Pinter [pintr], známý též pod pseudonymy Horold Pinta a David Baron, byl anglický dramatik a básník, herec a politický aktivista, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 2005.
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český herec a dramatikCitáty Harold Pinter
„One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.“
— Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Context: The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. (14)
„I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.“
— Harold Pinter
Pinter on Pinter in The Observer (1980)
„Praise the Lord for all good things.
We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust.
We did it.
Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.“
— Harold Pinter
From "American Football" http://www.haroldpinter.org/poetry/poetry_football.shtml (1991), quoted on 329 of Michael Billington's official authorized biography, Harold Pinter, rev. ed. of The Life and Work of Harold Pinter (1996; Faber and Faber, 2007).
„I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.</blockquote“
— Harold Pinter
On the arrest of Slobodan Milošević, as quoted by Fiachra Gibbons, in "Free Milosevic, says Pinter" http://www.guardian.co.uk/serbia/article/0,2479,527545,00.html, The Guardian (26 July 2001).
„I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..."
What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.“
— Harold Pinter
"Oh, Superman", broadcast for Opinion, Channel 4, 31 May 1990; Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005, rev. ed. (1998; London: Faber and Faber, 2005) 198-99.
