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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Edward Albee

Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
EDWARD ALBEE

Destruction Person Sincere
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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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
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
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
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
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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Adoption Fascinate Mom Myself People Play
Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Action Definition Oneself Play
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
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
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
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
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

Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

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