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“I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?”

Harold Pinter · Moving on

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Harold Pinter

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

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Harold Pinter

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Birthday

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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Government