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37 quotes by Peter Shaffer

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Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

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I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

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Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

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Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

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We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time... →

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Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and... →

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I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

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Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

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The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

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I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a... →

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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's... →

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You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and... →

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