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

Edward Albee

I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Feeling Myself Necessary Place Play
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
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
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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Fantasy Involvement People Reality Theatre
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.
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Access Democracy Information People Point Public Stop Yourself
It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy – the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.
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Answer Better Himself Invasion Privacy Question Terrible Writing
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
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
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
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
That’s the happiest moment. When it’s all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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Happiness Moments Stop
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
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Choice Dog Kill Kindness Method Myself
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
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Attack Creation Feeling Myself
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
I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.
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Finding Play Writing
Writing has got to be an act of discovery, I write to find out what I’m thinking about.
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Act Discover Myself Thinking Writing
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
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Criticism Death Facility
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
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
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I’m tired.I’m tired of the truth and I’m tired of lying about the truth.
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Lying Myself Sick Tired Truth
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
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Audience Criticism Encouragement End Theatre Yourself
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.
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Concept Evolution Play Question
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.
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Art Commerce Destroy Disturbance Escape People Serious Wasted Time
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

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