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

Edward Albee

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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right 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
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself Play
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
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
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports

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