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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Edward Albee

Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
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
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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Afraid Fake Illusion Life Live
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
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
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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 suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
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
The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself

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