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I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with.

Source: Merteuil, in Dangerous Liaisons (screenplay, 1989).
-- Christopher Hampton, (Jan 26 1946-____), English playwright; He wrote the Tony Award-winner The Philantropist; other works include Oviri, and Hotel du Lac.

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