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Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.

Edward Albee

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
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
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Carry Difference Illusion Truth Yourself
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
EDWARD ALBEE

Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
EDWARD ALBEE

Happiness Moments Stop
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
EDWARD ALBEE

Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate

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