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Peter Shaffer Quotes about Children

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And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

Peter Shaffer
Children, Thinking, Purpose

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

Peter Shaffer
Children, Eye, Adults
'Equus' (1973) act 1, sc. 19

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Peter Shaffer
Children, World, Born
Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

Peter Shaffer
Beautiful, Children, Eye
'Equus' (1973) act 1, sc. 19

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