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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.

Edward Albee

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
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
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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
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
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
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing 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 people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
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Blame End People Play Way
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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Art Criticism Finding Myself Relative Response Work
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.

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