"You never quite know what's going to strike……" — Peter Shaffer
"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 this was one for me."
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45 Quotes by Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer has 45 quotes on this site.
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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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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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