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We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
Peter Shaffer
War
Time
Children
Danger
England
Germany
State
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
Peter Shaffer
Conflict
Right
Tragedy
Wrong
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all.
Peter Shaffer
Drama
Sun
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
Peter Shaffer
Play
Publishing
Word
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
Peter Shaffer
Passion
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer
Adolescence
Childhood
London
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
Peter Shaffer
Race
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
Word
You can't always let people do their own thing.
Peter Shaffer
People