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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francouzský spisovatelCitáty 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 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.
