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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Edward Albee

That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
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

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