Christopher Hampton Won

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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.”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

“If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.”
—Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)