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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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 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
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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Change Criticism Responsibility Social Yourself
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play 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

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