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There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Edward Albee

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
The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
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Alive End Life Live Realization Worst Yourself
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
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
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Angry Myself Thinking Yourself
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Best Goodness Hope Intention
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
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
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
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
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
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
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
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

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