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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

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
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
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
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
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
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
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
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
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
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Actor Population
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
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 responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic — to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, “Do you like it? If you don’t like it, change it.
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Change Criticism Responsibility Social 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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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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