"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
-Harold Pinter
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"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.“
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"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal."
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"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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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."
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"There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre."
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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?"
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