“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
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Equus
Peter Shaffer
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Peter ShafferEquus
Peter ShafferThe Royal Hunt of the Sun
Peter ShafferPeter Shaffer: 6 quotes1 like
Famous Peter Shaffer Quotes
“If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.”
The New York Times, April 13, 1975.
“Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.”
Equus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1973] 1984), p. 8.
Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11 <br class="br">Conferː "Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right." <br class="br">Interviewed by Mike Wood for the William Inge Center for the Arts. http://www.ingecenter.org/interviews/PeterShaffertext.htm
Peter Shaffer The Royal Hunt of the Sun
The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Act I, sc. viii. (1964).
Sometimes misquoted as "They cross the Andes".
