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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 Tales from Hollywood (1983)

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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.

The Philanthropist (1969)

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

The Philanthropist (1969)

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Savages (1974)

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