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

Edward Albee

A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
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Confusion Education People
Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.
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Act Discovery Finding Oneself Writing
The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
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Act Creation Lonely Oneself Performance Privacy
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
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.
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Criticism Himself Judge Moral
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
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Bed Music Sports
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
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
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
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Chaos Civilization
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
Every monster was a man first.
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Man Monster One Liner
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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
Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Himself Play Stage

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