Quotes by Peter Shaffer

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about....

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

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They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great...

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

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

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My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never...

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It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a...

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

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I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine...

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I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

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