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Christopher Hampton

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

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

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"These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."

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"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

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"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."

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"I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs."

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"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."

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"We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person."

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"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"

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"Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs."

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