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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

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Correct Distance Necessary Order Time Way
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
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
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
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
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
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
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
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
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
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Education Myself Preference Taste
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
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
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports

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