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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Edward Albee

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
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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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Action Definition Oneself Play
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
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Interest Live Myself Production Run
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
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
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
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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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself

That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

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