Christopher Hampton Won

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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. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
    —Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

    “I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.”
    —Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)

    “For sleeping, like death,
    Must be won without pride,
    With a nod from nature,
    With a lack of strain,
    And a loss of stature.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)