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Edward Albee

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
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
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
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
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
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
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection

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