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

Edward Albee

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
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Mindset Myself Remember Thinking Time Yourself
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
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
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
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 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
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing

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