"Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time."

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Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

Harold Pinter

#Art Quotes #Giving Quotes #Frozen Quotes

“I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.”
“Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.”
“Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.”
“I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.”
“Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.”
“I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them”
“Itâ€™s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.”
“Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always.”

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