"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story."

-- Lincoln Steffens

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“The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.”
“It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.”

Source : "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”
“Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."”
“Sales is the parent of marketing.”
“I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.”
“Traditional murder mysteries are interesting because they're ostensibly about a horrible thing - murder - but underneath that, they're about restoring order to a messed-up world. By the end of a whodunit, the detective has taken the reader through all the reasons why this terrible thing happened. Through that explanation, and by seeing the killer captured, the reader feels a sense of catharsis.”
“My mother's work has been an enormous influence on me, but not literally. By that I mean, my photographs don't look like hers. That makes it difficult to compare them. What they do share is an emotional intensity.”

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