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

Edward Albee

Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Concept Evolution Play Question
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
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
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
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
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling 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
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself

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