Christopher Hampton Quotes

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

Christopher Hampton

A definition of capitalism…the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Christopher Hampton

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

Christopher Hampton

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how 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

Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?

Christopher Hampton

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

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

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