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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

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Learn what you are and be such.

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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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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

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

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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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One's life has many compartments.

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

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

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

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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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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

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

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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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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

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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.

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