"He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll……" — Peter Shaffer
"He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!"
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Peter Shaffer
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45 Quotes by Peter Shaffer
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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…
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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...…
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What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?
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The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in…
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Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
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The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.
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What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
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A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.
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And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children…
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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…
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I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of…
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I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
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