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

Quote by Harold Pinter

Topics: Never Forget Quotes

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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of...

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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend...

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who...

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who...

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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the...

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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World...

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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to...