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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

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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
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

Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
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
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
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
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
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
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
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports

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