I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. Peter Shaffer More Quotes by Peter Shaffer More Quotes From Peter Shaffer The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. Peter Shaffer inspirelifepeople And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy. Peter Shaffer purposechildrenthinking Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. Peter Shaffer differenttragedytwo Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it. Peter Shaffer beauty-of-lifemadefeels 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. Peter Shaffer writingbookmoving What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it? Peter Shaffer eyeheartgrieving Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. Peter Shaffer medicaldoctorspassion I was an accomplice in my own frustration. Peter Shaffer accomplicesmy-ownfrustration 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 eyebeautifulchildren If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. Peter Shaffer oil-paintinglondonnew-york You have your words, and I have mine. Peter Shaffer mines Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art. Peter Shaffer furnacesgoodnessart 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 adultseyechildren A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave. Peter Shaffer bornchildrenworld Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for 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. Not one kid 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 realmotherkids The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there. Peter Shaffer daddydevilmade Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship? Peter Shaffer worshipcan-dothinking I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything. Peter Shaffer parentpeoplethinking All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute. Peter Shaffer longingmutegod 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 landamericayears
