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

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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
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
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
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
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
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
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
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
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
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

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

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