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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Mindset Myself Remember Thinking Time Yourself
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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
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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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol 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
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
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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Afraid Fake Illusion Life Live
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

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