That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
EDWARD ALBEEWhy we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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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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Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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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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