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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

Edward Albee

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
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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 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
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 created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
EDWARD ALBEE

Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
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
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
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
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre

Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.

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