Creative Quotations from Peter Shaffer (1926-2016)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Peter Shaffer
(1926-2016) born on May 15

English playwright. His considerable range moved easily from farce to the portrayal of human anguish; e.g., "5 Finger Exercise," and "Equus."

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All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

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

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

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

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Equus," I:18.
R:	"Equus," II:35.
A:	In NY "Times," 13 Apr 1975.
N:	"The Royal Hunt of the Sun," 1965.
K:	"Equus," Note.