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It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

Edward Albee

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
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
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 write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
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
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise

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