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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

School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
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
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing

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