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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.

Edward Albee

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
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.
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Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
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
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet 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
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
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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

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