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

Edward Albee

Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
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
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
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
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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
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
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Concept Evolution Play Question
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing

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