Peter Shaffer
Playwright
1926-05-15
Books by Peter Shaffer
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Amadeus
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Quotes by Peter Shaffer
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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!
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Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?
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Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
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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!
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That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?
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What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
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The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
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Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?
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Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
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What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
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That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?
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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!
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The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
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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!
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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 writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
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Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it.
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Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
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Art and literature are my surrogate religions.
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A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.
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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
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