Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
EDWARD ALBEE
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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Art has an obligation to offend.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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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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When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
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People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life.’
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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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Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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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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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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The characters’ lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you’ve killed them off.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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