Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
EDWARD ALBEE
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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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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I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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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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