There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

The line captures a Pinter-like preoccupation with the instability of memory and the way personal narratives are constructed. It suggests that recollection is not a simple record of factual events: the mind can “remember” impressions, fears, desires, or stories absorbed from others with the same vividness as lived experience. The quote points to how identity and relationships may be shaped by such quasi-memories—felt as true, acted upon as true—regardless of whether they are historically accurate. In Pinter’s dramatic world, this uncertainty becomes a source of power and menace: whoever controls the story of the past can control the emotional reality of the present.