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Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.

Edward Albee

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
EDWARD ALBEE

Carry Difference Illusion Truth Yourself
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
EDWARD ALBEE

Control Perspective 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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
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
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
EDWARD ALBEE

Finding Myself Talk Writing
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
EDWARD ALBEE

Chaos Civilization
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
EDWARD ALBEE

Afraid Fake Illusion Life Live

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.

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