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Edward Albee

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
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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Destruction Person Sincere
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
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
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing

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