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 became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.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.
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The Royal Court more or less gave birth to me. I thought it only right that I should come back to have some Sunday lunch.
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