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Type: Playwright Quotes Category: British Playwright Quotes Date of Birth: January 26, 1946 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Christopher Hampton Related Authors: W. Somerset Maugham Moliere Arthur Miller Edward Bond Jean Anouilh Samuel Beckett James M. Barrie Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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.
Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton 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. Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. Christopher Hampton I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. Christopher Hampton If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. Christopher Hampton To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Christopher Hampton You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. Christopher Hampton |
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