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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.

Edward Albee

Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
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
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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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
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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Confusion Education People
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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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play 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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Humor Joke Social

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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