Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
EDWARD ALBEE
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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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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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Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
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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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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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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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Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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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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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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A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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