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Edward Albee

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Humor Joke Social
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing

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