“Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.”

— Peter Ustinov

As quoted in Contemporary Quotations (1988) by James Beasley Simpson

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English actor, writer, and dramatist 1921–2004

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