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24 December 2008. Harold Pinter is gone. We will miss him.

The New York Times

Michael Billington in The Guardian – UK

Photo Gallery in The Guardian

Newsday – USA

BBC

The China Post – Taiwan

The Hindu – India’s National Newspaper

The Globe and Mail – Toronto

Welt Online – Germany

Boston Globe

Huffington Post

Brisbane Courier Mail – Australia

National Public Radio – USA

Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize Address

2007 Interview with Charlie Rose. A terrific filmed interview with Pinter at the Old Vic, a year before his death – intercut with comments by such luminaries as Tom Stoppard, David Hare, David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley, Sam Mendes, Bill Nighy, and Pinter’s wife, Antonia Fraser.

“I believe in two things: one is, get a laugh, if it’s a natural laugh, the other is, stop it – dead.” – Harold Pinter

“I can’t think of anyone else that has actually changed the way we speak, and the way we write, the way we understand dialogue in the way that Harold has…” – Sam Mendes

“When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.” – Harold Pinter

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