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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

~Christopher Hampton

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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.

~Christopher Hampton

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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.

~Christopher Hampton

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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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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

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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?

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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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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

~Christopher Hampton

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There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

~Christopher Hampton

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If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

~Christopher Hampton

Topics: Book Film Get Good Good Book Good Film Got Potential Really Right Take Then You

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: January 26th, 1946

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