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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

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Peter Shaffer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 15
Died: 2016
Died: June 6
Author
Dramaturge
Literary Critic
Playwright
Screenwriter
City of Liverpool
Sir Peter Levin Shaffer
Children
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Smile
Also
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