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“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”

Truth Memory Falsehood Recollection False

Book:Old Times

Source: Old Times

“I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.”

Author:Harold Pinter

“Hold this thought: Right when you are most defeated–suicidal, perhaps–exhausted, positive of perpetual failure: this is when the epiphany is likely to arrive. One needs to be beaten down to think, and to think so as to escape. To escape death or boredom or the second act that simply will not do as you wish. Or the marriage that is stalled. Whatever is bearing down on you is a great teacher. Calm down and listen and crawl from beneath it a better person.”

Life Inspirational Failure Defeat Defeated Better

Author:Harold Pinter

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

Book:Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

Source: Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

“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.”

Silence Communication

Author:Harold Pinter

“The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and 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 lies. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.”

Truth Politics Nobel Prize In Literature Nobel Lecture

Book:Art, Truth & Politics: The Nobel Lecture

Source: Art, Truth & Politics: The Nobel Lecture