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Peter Shaffer Quotes

English - Playwright | May 15, 1926 - June 6, 2016

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

Me Conflict Tragedy Wrong Right Two

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Frustration My Own Own Accomplice

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Music Character Key Rhetoric Piece

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.

Girl Experience Man Deep Sex Young

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Life Time Feel Everything Made

The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.

People Gold Silver Followers Rough

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

New York Painting New London Oil

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Parents People Blame Think I Think

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.

Writing Think Grow You Place Know

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

Music Character Think First Film

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

Process Play Flesh Word Publishing

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

Passion Medical Doctor You See

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