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Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.

Edward Albee

I have been both overpraised and under praised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga it will all equal itself out.
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Equality Myself Praise Time Writing
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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
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
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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Attention Fact Myself Nourishment Pay Play Please Reassurance Young
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
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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Death Life Poet Writing
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
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
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
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Comfortable Criticism Himself Play Responsibility Society
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
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
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Interest Live Myself Production Run
Art should never try to be popular.
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Art One Liner Popular
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Age Character Circumstance Myself Play Sexual Situation Young

Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.

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