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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
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
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 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
As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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Experience Fashion Imagination Myself 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
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
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

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