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

Edward Albee

I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
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
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
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
Being different is interesting; there’s nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Different Fade Greatness Interesting Natural Production Reality
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
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Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
Well, when you write about people of a certain age we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
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Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young
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
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
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
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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Mindset Myself Remember Thinking Time Yourself

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