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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.

Edward Albee

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Democracy Deserve Oneself Politics Time
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
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
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
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.
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Animal Art Conscious Decorative Essential Ourselves Separate
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
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Action Definition Oneself Play
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Art has an obligation to offend.
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Art Obligation Offend One Liner

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