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

Peter Shaffer

Tags: art metaphor new-york-city london



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The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Peter Shaffer

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All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

Peter Shaffer


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What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Peter Shaffer


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What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers.

Peter Shaffer


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What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Peter Shaffer

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Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Peter Shaffer

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Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

Peter Shaffer

Tags: history immortality



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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!

Peter Shaffer

Tags: art mozart artistic-substance musical-history salieri



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Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Peter Shaffer


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