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As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

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Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

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I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

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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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I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

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One's life has many compartments.

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A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

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As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.

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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

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

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I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

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All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

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The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

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

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

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I also found being called Sir rather silly.

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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

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

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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

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

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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

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

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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

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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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