"Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art."

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Source : Peter Shaffer (1993). “Amadeus: A Drama”, Samuel French, Inc.

Peter Shaffer

#Art Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the â€œslow oneâ€ in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.”
“The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.”
“There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune.”
“After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.”
“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,â€™ said he. â€˜Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Captain Blood: Story Pirates”, p.59, 谷月社
“Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.”
“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.”

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