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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Edward Albee

In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
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
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
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
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
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
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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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

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