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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Edward Albee

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Concept Evolution Play Question
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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Afraid Fake Illusion Life Live
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

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