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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Edward Albee

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
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
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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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
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
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

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