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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

Edward Albee

A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
EDWARD ALBEE

Interest Myself Surprise
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEE

Education Myself Preference Taste
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
EDWARD ALBEE

Finding Myself Talk Writing
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective 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
When people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
EDWARD ALBEE

Finding Play Writing
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
EDWARD ALBEE

Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
EDWARD ALBEE

Alive Life Wound Yourself

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