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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
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I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
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If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
Biography
Christopher Hampton (born January 26, 1946 in Fayal, Azores) is a British playwright screen writer and film director who wrote a play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and worked on the movie Dangerous Liaisons.
