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That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Edward Albee

School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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
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
I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
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 play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth

That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

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