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Play Quotes by Peter Shaffer
- 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…
- I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you…
- Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke. — Arthur Ashe
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster