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Edward Albee

Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
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
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
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.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
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
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
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
When you get old, you can’t talk to people because people snap at you…. That’s why you become deaf, so you won’t be able to hear people talking to you that way.
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Old People Snap Talk Way Yourself
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
EDWARD ALBEE

Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time

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