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• Look... 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!'.

  Peter Shaffer

  Pain, Unique, Looks

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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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. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

  Peter Shaffer

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  'Equus' (1973) act 1, sc. 19

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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

  Average, Track, Littles

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Peter Shaffer

  Couple, Stupid, Eye

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• Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

  Peter Shaffer

  Race, Librarian, Tedious

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

  Peter Shaffer

  New York, Oil Painting, London

  The New York Times, April 13, 1975.

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• I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

  Peter Shaffer

  Years, Land, America

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• The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

  Peter Shaffer

  Daddy, Devil, Made

  "Equus". www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

  Peter Shaffer

  Strong, Tire, Extraordinary Things

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

  Peter Shaffer

  Play, Flesh, Process

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

  Peter Shaffer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

  Peter Shaffer

  Years, Nine, Firsts

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• I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

  Peter Shaffer

  Thinking, Actors, Facts

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

  Peter Shaffer

  Childhood, London, Adolescence

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• Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

  Peter Shaffer

  Fear, Writing, Class

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• I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

  Peter Shaffer

  Champion, Saint, Mediocrity

  "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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