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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.

Edward Albee

Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
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
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
EDWARD ALBEE

Education Ignorance Production School
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
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
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Confusion Education People
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
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
EDWARD ALBEE

Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
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
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
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

Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization

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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