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If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?

Edward Albee

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
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
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
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
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
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
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
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
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
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?

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