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Edward Albee

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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
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
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
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School

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