You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you … - Peter Shaffer

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Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Peter Shaffer

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Imagination, Know, Leave, Leave Me Alone, Never Quit, Strike

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He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him!. . . My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

Achievement, Caring, Husband, Make, Think, Thinking

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Flesh, Making, Play, Process, Reversing

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.

Average, Force, Jump, Littles, Track

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him. . . he never bores me, and he doesn't. . . not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

Bore, Extraordinary Things, Mozart, Strong, Thing, Tire

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Lessons, Man, Men, Teach, Use