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

Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? (1990)

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

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

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

[to Father Vogler] I will speak for you, Father. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

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