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, scenárista, herec a politický aktivista, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 2005.
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italský spisovatelCitáty Harold Pinter
„Pravda je, že ve své zemi nejsem dvakrát populární. Samozřejmě, že je dost lidí, které mé názory dráždí. Na druhou stranu je také dost těch, kdo chápou, že mi přijde například groteskní, absurdní, když se britská či americké vláda snaží zaujímat morální postoje. Podle mého žádnou morální autoritu nemají.“
— Harold Pinter
Source: Harold Pinter na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texty/rozhovory/rozhovor-s-haroldem-pinterem_1260.html
„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
Writing for the Theatre (1962), 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)
„But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. There are many. These truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.“
— Harold Pinter
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
„A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.“
— Harold Pinter
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
„The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading — as a last resort — all other justifications having failed to justify themselves — as liberation.“
— Harold Pinter
Art, Truth & Politics (2005)
„In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.“
— Harold Pinter
"Caribbean Cold War" http://www.redpepper.org.uk/latin/x-may96-pinter.htm, Red Pepper (May 1996).
