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The most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Edward Albee

Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
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
Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Action Definition Oneself Play
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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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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Life Myself People Play Writing
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
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Failure Inspirational Success Willing Yourself
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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

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