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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.

Edward Albee

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
The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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Change Criticism Responsibility Social Yourself
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 am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing

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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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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