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What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

Edward Albee

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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
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
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
EDWARD ALBEE

Actor Population
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEE

Interest Live Myself Production Run
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Action Character Live Lower Moments Yourself
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.
EDWARD ALBEE

Criticism Himself Judge Moral
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
EDWARD ALBEE

Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
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
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
EDWARD ALBEE

Finding Play Writing
If you have no wounds, how can you know if you’re alive?
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Alive Life Wound Yourself
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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Close Creativity Examination Magic
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
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Bad Definition Goodness Reality Writing
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
EDWARD ALBEE

Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
EDWARD ALBEE

Concept Evolution Play Question
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEE

Education Myself Preference Taste

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

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