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If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Edward Albee

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
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
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Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
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
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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Change Criticism Responsibility Social Yourself
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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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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 suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
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

If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

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