He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no music except television jingles… no history except tales from a desperate mother… no friends to give him a joke or make him know himself more moderately. He’s a modern citizen for whom society doesn’t exist.

Peter Shaffer


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The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.

Peter Shaffer


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The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

Peter Shaffer


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You have your words, and I have mine.

Peter Shaffer


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Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world?

Peter Shaffer


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I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside them - blinking our nights away in a non-stop drench of cathode-ray over our shrivelling heads!

Peter Shaffer


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A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Peter Shaffer

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There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Peter Shaffer

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