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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.

Edward Albee

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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Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
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
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
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
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
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
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Philosophy Question
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
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
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
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
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Promote Public Responsibility Theatre
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
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Death Live Right Yourself

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