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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.

Edward Albee

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
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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Carry Difference Illusion Truth Yourself
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
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning Myself
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
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
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
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
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
EDWARD ALBEE

Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself

When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.

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When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.

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