Posted on October 14, 2005 | Category: General
‘They said you’ve a call from the Nobel committee. I said, why?’
Harold Pinter has won the Nobel Prize, capping a week in which a retrospective of his plays was staged in the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
About the reaction of certain elements of the press, he had this to say:
They don’t like it if you don’t respond like a chimpanzee. But I’m not a chimpanzee and I don’t intend ever to be a fucking chimpanzee. Not that I’ve anything against chimpanzees.”
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