Christopher Hampton Quotes
1946 -
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Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
1970 The Philanthropist. 
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More Christopher Hampton Quotes
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— Don, in The Philanthropist (1969), scene 6
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton— Sunday Times Magazine (London, October 16, 1977)
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— Horváth in Tales from Hollywood (1983), scene 8
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— 1970 The Philanthropist.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism, I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Christopher Hampton— 1974 Savages, sc.16.
