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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Edward Albee

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
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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Confusion Education People
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
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
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning Myself
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
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
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
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
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
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing 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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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young

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