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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. Wikipedia

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Citáty Harold Pinter

„Pamatuji si určité věci, které se možná nikdy nestaly, ale které se tím, jak si je připomínám, stávají.“

— Harold Pinter

„Kritikové jsou jako jednonozí docenti přes skok do dálky.“

— Harold Pinter

„Pouze v jediném bodě jsou všichni lidé spokojeni - vystačí si se svým rozumem, bez ohledu na to, kolik ho mají.“

— 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

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„I can't really articulate what I feel“

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— Harold Pinter

„One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.“

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— Harold Pinter

Writing for the Theatre (1962)
Zdroj: Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Kontext: 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 hate brandy… it stinks of modern literature.“

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— Harold Pinter, Betrayal

Zdroj: Betrayal

„There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.“

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— Harold Pinter, Old Times

Zdroj: Old Times

„I know the place.
It is true.
Everything we do
Corrects the space
Between death and me
And you.“

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— Harold Pinter

„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.“

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— Harold Pinter

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Writing for the Theatre (1962)

„It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.“

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— Harold Pinter

„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“

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— 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).

„The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959, and where despite the economic blockade, there are levels of health, education and culture that are internationally recognised.“

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— Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, et al. "Letters: Human Rights and Cuba" http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1445897,00.html, The Guardian (26 Mar. 2005). Pinter was a signatory.

„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.“

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— Harold Pinter

Art, Truth & Politics (2005)

„It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by his characters. They resist him, they are not easy to live with.“

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— Harold Pinter

Art, Truth & Politics (2005)

„When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror — for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us — the dignity of man.“

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— Harold Pinter

Art, Truth & Politics (2005)