Frases de Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter CH, CBE foi um ator, diretor, poeta, roteirista, e certamente um dos grandes dramaturgos do século XX, além de destacado e incômodo ativista político britânico.

Foi um dos grandes representantes do teatro do absurdo junto com Samuel Beckett e Eugène Ionesco. Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 2005 e o prêmio Companion of Honour da Rainha da Inglaterra pelos serviços prestados à literatura. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. Outubro 1930 – 24. Dezembro 2008
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Harold Pinter: Frases em inglês

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

Writing for the Theatre (1962)
Fonte: Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics
Contexto: 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”

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 saw Len Hutton in his prime,
Another time, another time.”

Poem A Cricket Poem, quoted in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2009, p. 1604

“The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state terrorism on the part of the United States over many years, in all parts of the world.
I believe that it will do this not only to take control of Iraqi oil, but also because the American administration is now a blood-thirsty wild animal.”

Referring to the 9/11 attacks, in "The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/12/11/do1101.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2002/12/11/ixopinion.html, The Telegraph (12 November 2002), published version of speech made upon accepting an honorary doctorate from University of Turin in 2002.