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Christopher Hampton

"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."

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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."

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"All my six husbands married me for different reasons."

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"Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

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"I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting."

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