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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

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
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Author Black Creativity Discussion Magic Process
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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
A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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Confusion Education People
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
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
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
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
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
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
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time

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