Old Times Quotes

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

“If you have only one of something you can’t say it’s the best of anything.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

“هناك أشياء يستطيع الإنسان أن يتذكرها ولو أنها لم تحدث إطلاقا. هناك أمور أتذكرها ربما لم تحدث أبدا، لكن عندما أسترجعها تحتل مكانا في خيالي.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

“Hay cosas que uno recuerda aunque a lo mejor no pasaron nunca. Hay cosas que yo recuerdo que a lo mejor nunca pasaron, pero, como las recuerdo, entonces ocurren de verdad”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

“And there she was, very dim, very still, placed more or less I would say at the dead centre of the auditorium. I was off centre and have remained so.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

“-did you think of her as your best friend?
-she was my only friend.
-your best and only.
-my one and only. if you have only one of something you can't say it's the best of anything.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

“DEELEY: Myself I was a student then, juggling with my future, wondering should I bejasus saddle myself with a slip of a girl not long out of her swaddling clothes whose only claim to virtue was silence but who lacked any sense of fixedness, any sense of decisiveness, but was compliant only to the shifting winds, with which she went, but not the winds, and certainly not my winds, such as they are, but I suppose winds that only she understood, and that of course with no understanding whatsoever, at least as I understand the word, at least that’s the way I figured it. A classic female figure, I said to myself, or is it a classic female posture, one way or the other long outworn.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times