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“It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.”

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Christopher Hampton, born on January 26, 1946, is a renowned British playwright. His works are known for their profound character development and unique narrative style, with notable works including 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' and 'The Game of Love and Chance'. more

“Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.”

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Author:Ernesto Sabato

“Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.”

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Author:Tatyana Tolstaya

“I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.”

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Author:Tatyana Tolstaya

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