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"The weasel under the cocktail cabinet."
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Harold PinterLanguage is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words ‘the A — Harold Pinter
"Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words ‘the American people’ provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don’t need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it’s very comfortable."
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
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Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works
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"If only I could get down to Sidcup! Ive been waiting for the weather to break. Hes got my papers, this man I left them with, its got it all down there, I could prove everything."
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"I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or Ill kick your head in." But of course it doesnt 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."
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"I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time."
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"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."
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"Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?"
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