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

Edward Albee

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
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
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
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
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
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
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Humor Joke Social
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing

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