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School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.

Edward Albee

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
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
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Beyond Creation Cruelty Effect Independent Kindness Learning Myself
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
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner
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
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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
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
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
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Control Perspective Writing
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
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

School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.

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