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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.

Edward Albee

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
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
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
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
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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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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

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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