Harold Pinter
British playwright
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you, the author, at any time.
—Harold Pinter, British playwright, Art, truth, and politics (Nobel speech), December 7, 2005
Posted on December 9, 2005 at 12:27 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory [truth] since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.
—Harold Pinter, British playwright, Art, truth, and politics (Nobel speech), December 7, 2005
Posted on December 8, 2005 at 6:33 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
—Harold Pinter, British playwright, quoted in Barnes and Noble Book of Quotations, 1983
Posted on August 23, 2002 at 2:53 PM
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