Peter Shaffer

Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for his plays The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Equus and Amadeus (he adapted the last two for their screen versions).

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"The men climb the Andes."

- Peter Shaffer

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

- Peter Shaffer

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"Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right..."

- Peter Shaffer

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

- Peter Shaffer

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"That's the main trouble with the two nations: bad Brits are snobs, bad Americans are slobs."

- Peter Shaffer

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