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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.

Edward Albee

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
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
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
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
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
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
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
Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
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Concept Evolution Play Question
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning Myself

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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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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