Harold Pinter: Nobel Lecture - Literature 2005. Art, Truth & Politics In 1958 I wrote the following: '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.' I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S. Rice's Visit: Official Praise, Public Doubts.