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The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Life Life Lessons

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer God Religious

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Equus Freedom Religion Spirituality

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Art London Metaphor New York City

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Art Drama Morality

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Art Artistic Substance Mozart Musical History Salieri

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer History Immortality

To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Life Pain

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Life Experience

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Living Life

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, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Time Children Great

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

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Character Key Rhetoric

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Deep Man Girl

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

~ Peter Shaffer

Peter Shaffer Passion Doctor You
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